Family Literacy Quotes

#1. The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

Brian Greene

#2. Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Clay Shirky

#4. Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the ways of knowing and being that characterize one's own immediate family and community.

Margo V. Perkins

#5. To speak without shame about books we haven't read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for we can strive toward this image for a lifetime without ever managing to coincide with it.

Pierre Bayard

#6. Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.

Vironika Tugaleva

#7. Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems would be better?

Ada Calhoun

#8. Are demons allergic to fashion? Am I supposed to blind them with sequins?

Sarah Alderson

#9. Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Julia Cameron

#10. It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Jim Butcher

#11. And now to one side Gorgythion drooped his head and heavy helmet; He let it fall over like the bloom of a garden poppy, heavy with seed and the rains of spring.

Homer

#12. A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.

Ashley Gardner

#13. Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

Libba Bray

#14. It was January. Snow was falling; snow had fallen all day. The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers where falling all over England.

Virginia Woolf

#15. All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.

Katherine Ann Porter

#16. O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

William Shakespeare

#17. I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

James D. Watson