"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Education Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes

“Make peace, you fools!”

Source : "SS Steel Rain: Waffen-SS Panzer". Book by Tim Ripley, 2002.
“There's a reason that so much good material is coming down to the small presses: it's difficult to turn a profit, all things considered. But you can't go into small press publishing and complain about the money. Our Little Island publishing just needs to survive. If we're still around in a few years - in vaguely the same shape as we are today - then, to me, that's success.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.”

Source : Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”
“If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.”
“...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.”
“I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.”
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 22, 2012
“Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.”

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