Kammen Letter Quotes & Sayings

How do you teach "work hard, be independent, learn the meaning of money" to children who look around themselves and realize that they never have to work hard, be independent, or learn the meaning of money? That's why so many cultures around the world have a proverb to describe the difficulty of raising children in an atmosphere of wealth. In English, the saying is "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations." The Italians say, "Dalle stelle alle stalle" ("from stars to stables"). In Spain it's "Quien no lo tiene, lo hance; y quien no lo tiene, lo deshance" ("he who doesn't have it, does it, and he who has it, misuses it"). Wealth contains the seeds of its own destruction. — Malcolm Gladwell

Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family. — Heidi W. Durrow

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads. — Terence McKenna

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. — Frank Abagnale

It hurts to care; the courage to care is the profoundest courage there is. — Julia Hill

You took a bath without me?
I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice. — Katie MacAlister

And it started to dawn on me, I suppose, that a lot of things I'd always assumed I'd plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act on pretty soon or else let them go forever. — Kazuo Ishiguro

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study. — Karl Ferdinand Braun

I can't have everything I feel reduced to a textbook description that fits me, and millions of other broken idiots. — C.J. Roberts

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity. — Stella Young