"Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup."

-- Sherry Turkle

#Teenager Quotes #School Quotes #Phones Quotes

“We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.”
“You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma”

Source : Jack Gantos (2002). “What Would Joey Do?”, p.65, Macmillan
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
“Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.58, D & M Publishers
“We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.”
“The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds”
“People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.”
“The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy. Americans are almost as fearful of being thought eccentric as the English of not seeming like the genuine article. I once knew an Englishman who refused to go out on Easter Monday for fear of being detected in London when all the right people would be elsewhere; but when he went forth on less dangerous occasions, his get-ups were such as no American would wear to a dogfight.”

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