Neufeld Quotes

#1. That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Perkins

#2. Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice.
He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him.
I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.

Charlaine Harris

#3. The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.

Stephen Neufeld

#4. In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.

Lao-Tzu

#5. Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Gordon Neufeld

#6. We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people are capable of having done to them.

T. S. Eliot

#7. Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.

Gordon Neufeld

#8. It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Gordon Neufeld

#9. I'm not some invincible super-soldier
I'm a dying boy who's about to be stuck, helpless, in the hospital while an enemy takes over our country.

Marie Lu

#10. Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Gordon Neufeld

#11. We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

Gordon Neufeld

#12. Sugar" he starts, before turning his attention back over to Dee, " I have thought about sex, hard fucking sex, about a hundred times since we sat down to eat." Looking back over to me, " Does that clear it up for you?

Harper Sloan

#13. Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

Paulo Coelho

#14. I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Gordon Neufeld

#15. Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

Gordon Neufeld

#16. Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

Harrison Ford

#17. Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

Garrison Keillor

#18. Stupid, fragile mortals.

Carrie Vaughn

#19. Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

Gordon Neufeld

#20. The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

Emma Lazarus

#21. The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

#22. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.

If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.

G.S. Jennsen