Greenshaw Academy Quotes & Sayings

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options. — David Brooks

Note to self: I take entirely too much pleasure in causing bodily harm to others. — Adrianne Brooks

People should be entrusted with their own lives. People must be independent in every respect. No one should own anything. Property should be free like people are. The roads should not belong to any one person, in order to stop someone from collecting tolls from travelers. A priest shouldn't take a toll for prayers. A farmhand shouldn't take a toll for the fruits of the earth. The phone company shouldn't take a toll for conversations. Totally free of charge, like the fetus's time inside the mother continues to be after its birth. — Kristin Omarsdottir

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world. — Paulo Freire

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory. — Chip Heath

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop. — Jess Row

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead. — Erica Jong

People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence? — Jan Ellison

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history. — Jeffrey Fry

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for. — Tony Bennett