We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn’t be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt. Alison Gopnik Read Quote
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. Marilyn Monroe Read Quote
When you’re trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation’s moving, you’re just leaving a lot of people who aren’t on the bleeding edge of that conversation out. Ezra Klein Read Quote
For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn’t have to be. Carla Hall Read Quote
You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order. Mike Quigley Read Quote
I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there’s still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature. Criss Angel Read Quote
Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception – and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are. David A. Bednar Read Quote
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table – it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us. Clint Smith Read Quote
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, ‘How are you, you old scoundrel!’ clearly I don’t really mean he’s a scoundrel. Umberto Eco Read Quote
