"The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself."

-- Maria Montessori

#Children Quotes #Adults Quotes #Environment Quotes

“I don't steal things. I'm rich.”
“Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.”
“I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'”
“I'm afraid the President election is going to be rigged. I have to be honest.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

Source : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)
“Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.”

Source : "Eletelephony" l. 1 (ca. 1880)
“The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.”
“The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.”

Source : "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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