#ren

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#education #education

We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market. ↗

— Richard Branson

#differently #go #i #i think #industries

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#awareness #come #contentment #grace #grateful

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#deserve #explanations #need

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#cell #cell phones #else #everyone #hate

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on. ↗

— William Labov

#clear #dialects #different #divisions #each

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #american #becoming #dialects #different

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #america #american #any #continental

Our children were trained to look after each other. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#children #each #look #other #our

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#books #dressed #everything #generation #going