Sesame Street Love Quotes & Sayings

Shara was aware throughout that they were playing reversed roles, considering their nationalities: for she was the staunch, mistrustful conservative, zealously advocating the proper way of living and building a disciplined, useful life; and he was the permissive libertine, arguing that if someone wished to do something, and if it hurt no one, and moreover if they had the money to pay for it, then why should anyone interfere? — Robert Jackson Bennett

Stoplights and love can be cruel — Sesame Street

Parents embraced "Sesame Street" for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children's access to television. "Sesame Street" appeared to justify allowing a four- or five-year-old to sit transfixed in front of a television screen for unnatural periods of time. Parents were eager to hope that television could teach their children something other than which breakfast cereal has the most crackle. At the same time, "Sesame Street" relieved them of the responsibility of teaching their pre-school children how to read - no small matter in a culture where children are apt to be considered a nuisance ... We now know that "Sesame Street" encourages children to love school only if school is like "Sesame Street." Which is to say, we now know that "Sesame Street" undermines what the traditional idea of schooling represents. — Neil Postman

Volition ... takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness. — William James

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author. — Steven Levy

She stepped back and frowned at me. "Open it."
"Me?" I felt sure she was picking on me because I was the only enslaved god she had. "I'm not Hermes! I'm not even Valdez!"
"Try."
As if that were a simple request! I attempted to get my fingertips under the edge and prise it open. I spread my arms and yelled the standard magic words: MELLON! SHAZAM! SESAME STREET! None of these worked. At last I tried my infallible ace in the hole. I sang 'Love Is an Open Door' from the Frozen soundtrack. Even this failed.
"Impossible!" I cried. "This door has no taste in music! — Rick Riordan

Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street — Richard Bachman

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it. — Mark W. Boyer

When there is no specific task, the human's subconscious mind will be in a passive state — Sunday Adelaja

To allow uncomfortable feelings is to be fully alive because it opens the emotional faucet that also supplies joy and excitement. — Deborah Sandella

It would take a hell of a man to replace no man at all. — Anna Quindlen

Just the fact that that Europe album 'The Final Countdown' came out in 1986 and 'Rad' came out in 1986 ... I'm starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time! — Jorma Taccone

The new-born child does not realise that his body is more a part of himself than surrounding objects, and will play with his toes without any feeling that they belong to him more than the rattle by his side; and it is only by degrees, through pain, that he understands the fact of the body. And experiences of the same kind are necessary for the individual to become conscious of himself; but here there is the difference that, although everyone becomes equally conscious of his body as a separate and complete organism, everyone does not become equally conscious of himself as a complete and separate personality. — W. Somerset Maugham

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson

Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse. — Alexandre Dumas

Though I wondered what she ever made of my professed love for and intentions to marry Big Bird, the hottie of Sesame Street. — Wendy Delsol

After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that! — Feist

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal