Strilecky Quotes & Sayings

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. — Maria Montessori

Towards dawn he awoke. O what sweet music! His soul was all dewy wet. Over his limbs in sleep pale cool waves of light had passed. He lay still, as if his soul lay amid cool waters, conscious of faint sweet music. His mind was waking slowly to a tremulous morning knowledge, a morning inspiration. A spirit filled him, pure as the purest water, sweet as dew, moving as music. But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him! His soul was waking slowly, fearing to awake wholly. It was that windless hour of dawn when madness wakes and strange plants open to the light and the moth flies forth silently. — James Joyce

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity. — George Monbiot

The best day of my life was
one I never even saw coming. — Gayle Forman

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol. — Allan Sherman

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more. — Dora Russell

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident. — Adrian Tomine

I would have done anything, gone anywhere, to make sure that happened... — Jo O'Brien