"You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that."

-- Louis Auchincloss

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.”
“I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.”
“We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.”
“Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.”
“I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.”

Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.145, A&C Black
“I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.”

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