"Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity"

“Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.”

“You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.”

Source : FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Jul 25, 2014

“I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.”

“I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.”

“Some day I shall be President.”

“When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Mar 25, 2013

“Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”

“Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.”