Kenion Jeffery Quotes & Sayings

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem. — Phyllis Schlafly

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think. — Marjane Satrapi

Deferral of gratification may be an effect, not a cause. Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was responsible for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was just a marker, not a cause. By way of analogy, teenagers who visit ski resorts over winter break probably have a superior record of being admitted to the Ivy League. Should we therefore hire consultants to teach low-income children how to ski in order to improve the odds that colleges will accept them? — Alfie Kohn

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted. — Paulo Coelho

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. — John Selden