Elizabeth > Elizabeth's Quotes

“Of course, evil could be attractive. What better way to deceive?”
― Elizabeth Langston, Whisper Falls

“She refused to call Fern by her name, and that made Big Ma right about Cecile.”
― Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer

“We didn’t come for the revolution. We came for breakfast.”
― Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer

“allowing your child autonomy is the key to discipline.”
― Julia Palmarola, Practical Guide to the Montessori Method at Home: With more than 100 activity ideas from 0 to 6

“For them, working is learning, and learning is a fascinating experience”
― Julia Palmarola, Practical Guide to the Montessori Method at Home: With more than 100 activity ideas from 0 to 6

“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“right there at the beginning that my own mothering prowess wouldn’t ensure my children would embrace my Christian beliefs, get into good colleges, or make life choices I would be proud of.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

“because loving and connecting with her would always be worth my time and effort.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

“To have an exact accounting of events in the particular order they unfolded in history, or to possess the ability to see God in every person, in every situation, in every place?”
― Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

“As a reading adult, I still prefer to get both my Dickens and my Shakespeare through audiobooks.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

“If you want to raise a reader, you should not rely much on your child’s school,” Dr. Daniel Willingham writes in Raising Kids Who Read.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

“Sweeping”
― Sterling Production, Montessori at Home Guide: 101 Montessori Inspired Activities for Children Ages 2-6

“repeated readings of fewer books are better than a huge collection read infrequently.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

“until equity is reached.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Women are not getting happier, just more medicated.”
― Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

“The unspoken feminist mantra says, “Men, even though we want to be just like you, you must change.”
― Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

“Jack stared at me with gentleness. “Maybe you aren’t doubting that God will do the best for you, but wondering how painful the best might be.”
― Patti Callahan, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

“saints only had so much patience because they really had nowhere to go and nothing to do, it was untested patience and not worth all the credit it got them”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?”
― Pam Barnhill, The Confident Homeschooler: How to Thrive in the Day-to-Day

“We must make a heroic effort to rid our lives of all but one motive, that “impractical” spirituality of the saints, a life in union with God.”
― Mary Reed Newland, How to Raise Good Catholic Children

“Some folks think they are luxuries,' I said, 'but at Ingleside we think they are necessities.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside

“A happy mom lives her life without constantly trying to escape it.”
― Rachel Norman, If Mama Ain't Happy: Why Minding Healthy Boundaries Is Good for Your Whole Family

“All superstition and baseless traditions of the past must be discarded in favor of an approach forged out of the “scientific method.”
― Sally Fallon Morell, The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care

“It is the memory of time that makes us old; remembering eternity makes us young again.”
― Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education

“My child doesn’t need me to fret and fear; she needs me to love and guide her with grace.”
― Sarah Mackenzie, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

“for it is better, not merely to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a child, but to enter it as an imbecile, rather than with your whole intellect to be cast into hell—or into Hanwell.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Mr. Blatchford is not only an early Christian, he is the only early Christian who ought really to have been eaten by lions.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy