Emancipating Children Quotes & Sayings

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie. — Olivier Theyskens

Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Always educate yourself regardless of how old you are. — Eraldo Banovac

The girl who grew up watching old Madonna videos wants to embrace my sexual freedom — Lex Martin

It is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually. — Brenda Ueland

Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is. — Patrick Ness

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times. — Mazie Hirono

When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new. — Michael Jackson

It was in the library that he and May had always discussed the future of the children: the studies of Dallas and his young brother Bill, Mary's incurable indifference to "accomplishments," and passion for sport and philanthropy, and the vague leanings toward "art" which had finally landed the restless and curious Dallas in the office of a rising New York architect.
The young men nowadays were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things. If they were not absorbed in state politics or municipal reform, the chances were that they were going in for Central American archaeology, for architecture or landscape-engineering; taking a keen and learned interest in the prerevolutionary buildings of their own country, studying and adapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word "Colonial." Nobody nowadays had "Colonial" houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs. — Edith Wharton

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. — Matt Damon

I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll take that risk. — Agatha Christie

Men's clothing hasn't changed in 200 years, maybe a lapel gets a little wider or a tie gets narrower from time to time. But it's usually always the same. There is stupidity in men's fashion. But women know who they are. They can change. Clothing is seductive for women. They get different personas by buying new clothes. But men don't. — Massimo Vignelli

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body. — Gary Neville

Love, as I have heard say, sometimes flies and sometimes walks; with this one it runs, with that it moves slowly; some it cools, others it burns; some it wounds, others it slays; it begins in the course of its desires, and at the same moment completes and end it; in the morning it will lay siege to a fortress and by night will have taken it, for there is no power than can resist it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra