"When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives"

-- June Jordan

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”
“Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.”
“Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.”
“The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.”
“... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
“The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.”
“Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this can happen even if the child merely becomes aware of being watched. After all, we too sometimes feel unable to go on working if someone comes to see what we are doing. The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it.”

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