Fairchilds Manhasset Quotes & Sayings

Children learn much more, far more quickly than adults. Do you know why that is? Because they're open-minded. Because they want to know and they want to learn. Adults, think they know it all. They grow up and forget so easily and instead of opening their minds and developing it they choose what to believe and what not to believe. You can't make a choice on things like that: you either believe or you don't. That's why their learning is slower. They are more cynical, they lose faith and they demend to know things that will help them get by day by day. They've no interest in the extras ... It's the extras that make life. — Cecelia Ahern

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan

My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want. — Wyomia Tyus

If your career doesn't work out, write a book about it. — Marcy Sheiner

There was another occupant of the living-room, curled up on a couch, who must not be overlooked, since he was a creature of marked individuality, and, moreover, had the distinction of being the only living thing whom Susan really hated. — L.M. Montgomery

The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas. — Mark Nepo