Kristiansand Quotes & Sayings

In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm. — Bill Bryson

Both Cohen and Fierst told me that many parents at Riverdale, while pushing their children to excel, inadvertently shield them from exactly the kind of experience that can lead to character growth. As Fierst put it, "Our kids don't put up with a lot of suffering. They don't have a threshold for it. They're protected against it quite a bit. And when they do get uncomfortable, we hear from their parents. We try to talk to parents about having to sort of make it okay for there to be challenge, because that's where learning happens. — Paul Tough

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me. — Louis Auchincloss

The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history. — Michael Scott

Since the Fall, our instincts have been to withdraw from relationship when we're in trouble, when we most need other people. (Remember — Henry Cloud

I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine. — Patti Callahan Henry