Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes

#1. The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#2. I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#3. Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#4. Who would have thought God would send a bad man and a sheriff just to save Prince?

Debra Holland

#5. Navigating change is the new stability.

Sharon Weil

#6. This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze, had exposed her ankles; he had proposed the following day.

Robert K. Massie

#7. I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

Santigold

#8. When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#9. Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#10. I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.

Bengie Molina

#11. Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Harvey MacKay

#12. There's only one that is a little stronger than me: Messi. All the others are behind me.

Mario Balotelli

#13. I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

Lou Reed

#14. It is doubtful whether Mrs Bennet missed the company of her second daughter, but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite child.

P.D. James

#15. There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#16. We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Lucas Till

#17. It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#18. The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#19. I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough?

Monty Hall

#20. I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

Alexander Sutherland Neill