"we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling."

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Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1919). “The Little Colonel's House Party”

Annie Fellows Johnston

#Travel Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.”
“Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.”
“Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.”
“How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?”
“It’s not easy to get rid of unwanted things.”
“All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.”
“I don't want to be so confident in myself.”
“We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that's truly progressive and something that's just trying to get us to buy a product. Capitalism, ultimately, it's not about equality, it's not about social justice.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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