Jacques Polge Quotes

#1. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Haim Ginott

#2. Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

James Keller

#3. Adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.

Grace Zaring Stone

#4. She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Moliere

#5. I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read ... "

Chris Thile

#6. I love mysticism - it's such fun.

Jerry Hall

#7. The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

Shmuley Boteach

#8. Think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!

Anne Sexton