"Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers."

--

Source : "An Interview With Kathryn Lasky About Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

Kathryn Lasky

#Thinking Quotes #Literature Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.”
“Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness”
“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.”
“Iâ€™ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. Iâ€™m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.”
“It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.”
“We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone...doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.”

Source : "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.
“If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.”
“The only thing worse than women are women who tell me I'm a misogynist.”

You may also like:

Ann Rinaldi
Author
Brian Jacques
Writer
Carolyn Meyer
Author
Emily Rodda
Author
Erin Hunter
Author
Jim Sturgess
Actor
John Orloff
Screenwriter
Kenneth Oppel
Writer
Mary Pope Osborne
Author