Michele Borba famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.

  • Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.

  • Expectations are resentments under construction.

  • What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

  • Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

  • All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

  • The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps.

  • The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

  • You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

  • But Hale wasn't just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back.