Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or terms:
“Mothers often are too easily intimidated by their childrens negative reactions...When the child cries or is unhappy, the mother reads this as meaning that she is a failure. This is why it is so important for a mother to know...that the process of growing up involves by definition things that her child is not going to like. Her job is not to create a bed of roses, but to help him learn how to pick his way through the thorns.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“I am a patient manalways willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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