#ld

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives. ↗

— Danny Glover

#children #creative #enhance #how #intelligent

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this. ↗

— Danny Glover

#because #caribbean #change #climate #climate change

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#almost #always #amazing #amazing things #childhoods

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#magically #possesses #powers #race

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#half #i #just #money #only

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ↗

— William Godwin

#education #him #his #into #lead

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fables #lies #more #nothing #self

Things to worry about: Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about dolls Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about growing up Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you Don’t worry about triumph Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault Don’t worry about mosquitoes Don’t worry about flies Don’t worry about insects in general Don’t worry about parents Don’t worry about boys Don’t worry about disappointments Don’t worry about pleasures Don’t worry about satisfactions Things to think about: What am I really aiming at? How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to: (a) Scholarship (b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them? (c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it? With dearest love, Daddy ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#letter #courage

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.' ↗

— Louie Gohmert

#became #branded #evil #female #first

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#another #been #being #burned #choosing