"The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent."

-- Frank Pittman

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.”
“The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.”
“Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.”
“If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.”

Source : "Living Biographies of Great Composers" by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, Garden City (NY): Blue Ribbon, (p. 309), 1946.
“Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants ...”

Source : Susan Dunlap (1993). “Death and Taxes”, Dell Publishing Company
“On stage I am the actor, director and the bouncer all at the same time. Fear does not exist in this dojo does it? No Sensi! Sorry when I get excited I have to toss in some Karate Kid quotes.”
“The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.”
“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.22, Routledge

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