Mckindra Fletcher Quotes & Sayings

Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership
when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else. — Hillary Clinton

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. — James Lovelock

And personalities define themselves in terms of other personalities. — Terry Pratchett

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said — Umberto Eco

Each day Marda gets closer. The sub circles coral reefs off the coasts, where mermaids are said to like the colors of the schools of fishes, and train them to swim around their necks like jewelry or live behind their ears, beneath their long hair. Sometimes mermaids like shallow places, but mostly they like the dark and the beautiful, uncharted, abandoned, soulless parts of the undiscovered world. — Holly Walrath

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us. — Adam Phillips

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word. — Emma Lazarus

I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels. — Bat For Lashes

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson. — Tony Wagner

Short version: For the child ... , it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow ... It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate. — Rachel Carson