Valerie Polakow Famous Quotes
"Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure."
Valerie Polakow Quotations
"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic."
Henry Louis Mencken
"Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength."
W T Ussery
"As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend."
Proverbs 2717 Bible
"Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God."
Daniel J Boorstin
"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."
Publilius Syrus
"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother."
Katharine Hepburn
It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
"I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew."
Janet Minor
"Life doesn't happen to us, it happens from us."
Mike Wickett
"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."
Hannah Arendt