Haim Ginott Quotes
While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
Quotes to Explore
-
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
-
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
-
One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
-
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
-
I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
-
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
-
I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
-
You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
-
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
-
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
-
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
-
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
-
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
-
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
-
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
-
If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
-
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
-
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
-
You meet interesting people and do interesting things as a cadet. I like the people and the training. I'd like to go to the Air Force Academy after I graduate, and I think this will really help.
-
Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
-
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.
-
My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.
-
While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
