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“The energy that moves across the ocean connects all surfers who ride it.”
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“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
Source : "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.
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“The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.”
Source : Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”
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“It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic.”
Source : William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books
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“You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.”
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“Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.”
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“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.”