"I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got."

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#Children Quotes #Cat Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you donâ€™t know how you got from one to the next.”
“What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.”
“I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.”
“Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.”
“Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.”
“We are not youth any longer. We donâ€™t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
“All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isnâ€™t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or itâ€™s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.”
“You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four”

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