#ear

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#different #maybe #name #need #own

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#clock #digital #every #every time #hands

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#heart #i #i am #i do #need

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#by the time #circle #class #far #goes

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#asked #children #did #experience #four

The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#alerted #am #amazed #basis #belief

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#been #better #between #bridge #california

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#chronic #defects #deprived #error #had

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#child #learn #mentally #never #physically

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#change #competition #different #different levels #games