#Roots Quotes #People Quotes #Fortunate Quotes
“Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.”
“Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.”
Source : Lucy McCormick Calkins, Lucy Calkins (1991). “Living Between the Lines”, Heinemann Educational Books
“As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.”
“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”
“Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings in material goods. Instead, our materialism connotes an unbounded desire to acquire followed by a throwaway mentality. True materialism could become part of a new ecological consciousness.”
“Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.”
“Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.”
“A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying”
