Highland Park Quotes

#1. We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Henry Hampton

#2. On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

Jonathan Kozol

#3. I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.

King Tuff

#4. Genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

Austin Kleon

#5. In England, life is a long process of composing oneself ...

Shirley Hazzard

#6. Travel now by all means - if you have the time. But travel the right way, the way I travel. I am always reading and thinking of the history and geography of a place. I see its people in terms of these, placed in the social framework of time and space.

Oliver Sacks

#7. No man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

Anandi Gopal Joshi

#8. I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

Kelly Ripa

#9. Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.

Behdad Sami

#10. If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

Ram Dass

#11. I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Keanu Reeves