When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. Malorie Blackman
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your...
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Wilhelm Reich
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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Robert Frost
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Socrates
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
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Heather Brewer
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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Aristotle
More Quotes By Malorie Blackman
Landscape is my religion.... God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.
Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the centre, me.
Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?
I will not feel, I will notfeel, until I have to
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
