"My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves."

-- Anne Fadiman

#Brother Quotes #Self Quotes #Parent Quotes

“It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.”
“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.”
“The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future”
“The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.”
“I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way”
“Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generationâ€™s level of knowledge and sense of values.”

Source : Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”
“Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi â€” all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.”

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