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“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”
Source : James P. Comer (1995). “School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project”
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“Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.”
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“Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.”
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“I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.”
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“Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War.”
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“I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to join their club either. But the point is, I am a fallen catholic, I'm not religious, and that's all well and good.”
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“I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.”
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“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.”
Source : Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”
