Berends Quotes

#1. Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
Polly B. Berends

Polly Berrien Berends

#2. When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

Cyndi Lauper

#3. A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you're always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.

Polly Berrien Berends

#4. We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.

Polly Berrien Berends

#5. Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.

Andie MacDowell

#6. We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.

Polly Berrien Berends

#7. To live either fully alive ... or in empty nothingness? It's the in between that drives us mad.

Ann Voskamp

#8. I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

Randy Newman

#10. Perfection exists only in your own mind. What you find to be perfect, is not necessarily perfect for someone else.

Ilia Berends

#11. Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

Polly Berrien Berends

#12. If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God.

Polly Berrien Berends

#13. Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Polly Berrien Berends

#14. We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.

Polly Berrien Berends

#15. If only I could die right now, then I would never have to live without him, I would just be gone ...

Tarryn Fisher

#16. I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

Jimmy Chamberlin

#17. The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

Polly Berrien Berends

#18. Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope
so soon
it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.

Polly Berrien Berends

#19. I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

Kim Gordon

#20. Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

Polly Berrien Berends

#21. And here come the values:
Respect. Courage. Excellence.

CAMH

#22. Suppose, for instance, that the President of the United States has committed the crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can deprive him of his liberty or his life.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#23. A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

Polly Berrien Berends

#24. Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility
both credit and blame
for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.

Polly Berrien Berends

#25. An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

Ken Wilber

#26. The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Polly Berrien Berends

#27. Like prayer, reading is also a way of changing course.

Polly Berends

#28. My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Polly Berrien Berends

#29. I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Tom Hanks

#30. The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.

Polly Berrien Berends

#31. The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Polly Berrien Berends

#32. Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.

Polly Berrien Berends

#33. I pay my taxes, but I've never voted and I never will vote as long as the system works the way it does. Even when Obama was running, I wanted to see a woman run! I'd rather see a woman in the White House as opposed to Obama.

Lupe Fiasco

#34. Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

James MacArthur

#35. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Polly Berrien Berends