"My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids."

-- Ross W. Greene

#Kids Quotes #Parent Quotes #Advice Quotes

“It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.”

Source : Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.
“Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.”

Source : "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.
“I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Isla and the Happily Ever After”, p.192, Penguin
“I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.”
“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.”
“I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.12, Princeton University Press
“It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.”
“I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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