#who

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#confidence #destiny #drive #feeling #gets

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along." ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#any #build #create #different #different way

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#despair #die #down #life #negative

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#among #christian #christian church #church #encouraged

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#association #audience #big #big enough #call

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #learn #listening #musicians #practice

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#clean #hiding #i #image #never

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#education #elsewhere #fit #guy #i

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #co-operation #coherence #electric #emission