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Quotes
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Authors
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Alan Hirsch
"Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure."
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Alan Hirsch
#Children Quotes
#Adventure Quotes
#Risk Quotes
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“Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.”
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“Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.”
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“Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.”
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“Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.”
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“This will remain so after Hurricane Katrina disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. Long ago. it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. '... It did not know because it did not care... until some flagrant outrage on decency and the health of the community aroused it to noisy but ephemeral indignation.”
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“At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.”
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“Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”
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“We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.”