Strickland Gillilan quotes

“You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.”
-- Strickland Gillilan

Source : Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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“Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.”
-- Strickland Gillilan

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“Just stand aside and watch yourself go by; Think of yourself as 'he' instead of 'I'.”
-- Strickland Gillilan

Source : Strickland W. Gillilan (1910). “Including Finnigin: A Book of Gillilan Verse”

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“I feel betrayed by own mother.”

“You're it for me, baby. Just you. You're not going to be your mother. You're special and unique and we're going to get you help. But I will be right by your side the entire time. I'll never leave you. I swear it.”

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”

“Expectations are resentments under construction.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2017). “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy”, p.29, Penguin

“Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.”

“What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.”

“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

Source : Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

“God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.”

“Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.”

Source : Source: collider.com