Tishana Jones Quotes & Sayings

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. — Mark Twain

as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from the here and now. — David Foenkinos

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born. — Henry David Thoreau

Kids praised for effort complete 50 percent more hard math problems than kids praised for intelligence. — John Medina

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The patriarchal family was only the most recent in a string of 'primary' social organizations, all of which defined woman as a different species due to her unique childbearing capacity. The term family was first used by the Romans to denote a social unit the head of which ruled over wife, children, and slaves - under Roman law he was invested with the rights of life and death over them all; famulus means domestic slave, and familia is the total number of slaves belonging to one man. — Shulamith Firestone

Few of these forecasts came true. On the other hand, nobody foresaw the Internet. — Yuval Noah Harari

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one. — Mahatma Gandhi

The parliament no longer is an 'assembly of wise men chosen as individual personalities by privileged strata, who sought to convince each other through arguments in public discussion on the assumption that the subsequent decision reached by the majority would be what was true and right for the national welfare.' Instead it has become the 'public rostrum on which, before the entire nation (which through radio an television participates in a specific fashion in this sphere of publicity), the government and the parties carrying it present and justify to the nation their political program, while the opposition attacks this program with the same opennes and develops its alternatives. — Jurgen Habermas