"We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood."

-- David Elkind

#Mourning Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Lost Quotes

“During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone â€˜identifiedâ€™ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my earâ€”(we all spoke in whispers there): â€˜Could you describe this?â€™ I said, â€˜I can!â€™ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.”
“It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.”
“I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.”

Source : Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.102, Simon and Schuster
“I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.”
“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.”
“I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.”
“It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.”
“I still look at myself and want to improve.”

Source : "David Beckham: One-on-One". Questions from FourFourTwo readers, www.fourfourtwo.com. February 1, 2006.

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