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“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.”
Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press
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“I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?”
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“Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.”
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“Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.”
Source : David J. Wolpe (1999). “Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
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“Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.”
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“I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.”
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“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”
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“Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.”
