Leavesley Bridge Quotes & Sayings

This is the difference between the fox and the hedgehog. Both creatures know that storytelling is everything, and that the only way modern people can understand history and politics is through the machinations of a story. But only the hedgehog knows that storytelling is secretly the problem, which is why the fox is constantly wrong. — Chuck Klosterman

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it. — Maria Montessori

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow. — Nhat Hanh

There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two-thirds full but felt one-third empty. — John Green

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. — Sarah Kay

I can see through the human heart, and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish. — Morrissey

In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical? — John Brunner

His figures should have been through the roof; the economy was still unsteady, the president was hog-tied by his own compromised idealism, and Davis and his kind had succeeded in vilifying unions, immigrants, and welfare cases, making them carry the can for the greed of bankers and Wall Street sharks, thereby somehow convincing sane people that the poorest and weakest in the nation were responsible for most of its ills. What never ceased to amaze Tate was that many of those same individuals (the dirt-poor, the unemployed, the welfare recipients) listened to his show, even as he castigated those (the union organizers, the bleeding-heart liberals) who most wanted to help them. — John Connolly