Lareau Quotes

#1. What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in the Chris Langan chapter. Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

Jess Walter

#3. I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.

Plato

#5. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?

Michael Morpurgo

#6. succeed, "you must study the endgame before everything else.

Peter Thiel

#7. I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift

#8. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.

Alison Weir