"I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western."

-- Charles Kimbrough

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Class Quotes

“No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.”
“I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.”

Source : "The Ritalin Racketeers and Their Chemical Lobotomies – Part I". Interview With Michael Savage, www.whale.to. March 29, 2000.
“For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.”
“As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.”

Source : Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.
“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
“People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you canâ€™t change life from the outside. We all know this now.”
“As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.”
“I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.”

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