Quotes About The Children's Bureau

#1. We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

William Howard Taft

#2. Blissful wonder!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

Meir Soloveichik

#4. She said, a child born at midwinter comes into the world on the shortest day of the year. From that point on, the days stretch out. And so a child born at midwinter walks always toward the light, all his life.

Juliet Marillier

#5. These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome.

Tom Brokaw

#6. Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.

Carson McCullers

#7. Home almost, at
least where words cut your lip & I spoke
you together & then back apart.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson

#8. A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

Fernand Point

#9. To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

John Walters

#10. I love you," Journeyman said to the lift crystal. He kissed it and spread his arms across its surface in an embrace. "I love you, you big, beautiful beast. I want you to marry me. I want you to bear my children."
"Chief," Grimm said, reproachfully, but his heart wasn't in it.

Jim Butcher

#11. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

Felix Dennis

#12. Thirsting for God O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory. PSALM 63:1-2 NLT

Various

#13. I have seen under the sun, vengeance is of the Lord.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Thanks, Tink, for being a good brother to me," I say, misting up a bit. "She's a fine girl, and I just know you'll be very happy together." I give him a kiss on the cheek.
"The Brotherhood forever, Jacky," is what he softly says in return, encircling me in his warm embrace. "Forever.

L.A. Meyer

#15. We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.

Chogyam Trungpa

#16. I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

Robert Charles Wilson