"The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose."

-- Janusz Korczak

#Mother Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes

“When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.”
“Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.”
“Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism, it's easy to shave off facts that don't quite fit the flow.”
“The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.”

Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.131, BoD – Books on Demand
“My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.”
“Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.”
“My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'.”
“As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.”

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