"The child becomes a person through work."

-- Maria Montessori

#Children Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.359, PublishDrive
“You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!”
“Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.”
“To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.”
“Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.”
“The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.”
“Time had changed the magical to mundane”
“If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.”

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