Lenneberg Quotes & Sayings

We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw. — Sandra Steingraber

I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory. — Maria Faustina Kowalska

the moment of death is fixed at the moment of birth. Some — Robert E. Svoboda

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short. — Jane Austen

You bought something. You shopped!"
"I didn't shop. I purchased what is likely stolen merchandise, or gray-market goods. It's potential evidence. — J.D. Robb

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life. — Ursula Andress

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' — Andre Breton

GENERAL BOOKS ABOUT LANGUAGE Highly readable, witty, and provocative is Roger Brown's Words and Things. Also readable, magnificent, though sometimes too dogmatic, is Eric H. Lenneberg's Biological Foundations of Language. The deepest and most beautiful explorations of all are to be found in L. S. Vygotsky's Thought and Language, originally published in Russian, posthumously, in 1934, and later translated by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vahar. Vygotsky has been described - not unjustly - as "the Mozart of psychology." A personal favorite of mine is Joseph Church's Language and the Discovery of Reality: A Developmental Psychology of Cognition, a book one goes back to again and again. — Oliver Sacks

I am my biggest cheerleader. Always have been. Probably always will be. — Krista Ritchie

End of the First Book — Kate DiCamillo

O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! — William Shakespeare

I had no idea you'd all be so worried. — E.L. James

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend. — Taylor Swift

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. — Alfred North Whitehead