"How could you tell children they were playing with fire if theyÂ´d never had the experience of being burned?"

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Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.34, Macmillan

Alexandra Adornetto

#Children Quotes #Fire Quotes #Playing With Fire Quotes

“We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.”
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this... ...Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away form the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

Source : Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.
“Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.”
“I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill”
“It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.”
“A lot of people are looking for their soul mates. Along the way, it's nice to bump into some genital pals.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 18, 2013
“Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.”
“What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.”

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