Eva Figes famous quotes

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  • Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

  • No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

  • The adults were completely wrong.

  • A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

  • The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

  • When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

  • You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.

  • Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

  • Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

  • You don't need vision to be a visionary.