Famous quotes containing the words fact, finding and/or mission:
“The fact remains that the human being in early childhood learns to consider one or the other aspect of bodily function as evil, shameful, or unsafe. There is not a culture which does not use a combination of these devils to develop, by way of counterpoint, its own style of faith, pride, certainty, and initiative.”
—Erik H. Erikson (19041994)
“One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known thingscombinations that may yield new forms of expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....Its exactly what childrens play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that childrens play is so important a part of childhoodand beyond.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)
“I cannot be a materialistbut Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debaucherysuch suffering, such dreadful sufferingand shall the short years of Christs mission atone for it all?”
—D.H. (David Herbert)