WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:33:12 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg harshness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rogers, Fred -- You Are Special (1994) https://wist.info/rogers-fred/36038/ https://wist.info/rogers-fred/36038/#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:02:18 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36038 The world is not always a kind place. That’s something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it’s something they really need our help to understand.


Fred Rogers (1928-2003) American educator, minister, songwriter, television host ["Mister Rogers"]
You Are Special (1994) ]]> https://wist.info/rogers-fred/36038/feed/ 0 36038 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth -- “Table-Talk,” Drift-wood (1857) https://wist.info/longfellow-henry-wadsworth/35629/ https://wist.info/longfellow-henry-wadsworth/35629/#respond Tue, 22 Nov 2016 06:15:46 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35629 A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“Table-Talk,” Drift-wood (1857)
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