Olstead Point Quotes & Sayings

An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right kind amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you should try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them ... The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy. — Bertrand Russell

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people. — Napoleon Hill

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it. — Edward Abbey

Life is for living, not for complaining. — Debasish Mridha

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old. — L. Frank Baum

HAC: Human-Animal Conflict. — James Patterson

You will never turn from a sin you don't hate. — Jen Wilkin

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and its fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. — William Wordsworth

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. — John Bartholomew Gough

I have seen their backs before. — Duke Of Wellington

Stay with me, Becks. Dream of me. I am ever yours. — Brodi Ashton