"Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us."

-- Geoffrey Canada

#Children Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”

Source : Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books
“I think Americans today look at the moon and think of it like apple pie or Coca-Cola. It's American. We planted our flag there. We see ourselves in it and don't like the idea of anyone else taking over the moon.”
“Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.”

Source : Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.37, Feral House
“It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem”
“The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.”

Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.228, Crown Business
“No matter what the people say, I'm gonna love you anyway. Girl, you're my first love.”

Source : Song: My First Love, Album: Comin' from Where I'm From, 2003
“I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.”
“Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.”

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