Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 7
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.
Joyce Maynard
The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
Kelly Corrigan
The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.
Jessica Alba
It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.
Success... it's what you do with what you've got.
Leroy van Dyke
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
Loni Anderson
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William Feather
“There has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it.”
Alexander The Great
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.
Shirley Hazzard
Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
