Sheltering Kids Quotes

#1. I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

Adam Rapp

#2. I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.

Sophie Hunger

#3. You see me no more comfortable in it than a cat coiffed with a calabash.

Victor Hugo

#4. After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.

Rose Wynters

#5. Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.

Robert J. Garagiola

#6. Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. If an expectant mother stepped over a rope on the ground or under a clothesline, the umbilical cord would tangle during childbirth. Mothers-to-be should

Diane Ackerman

#8. Love, as is told by the seers of old,
Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#9. Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Franz Karl Achard

#10. Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

John Muir

#11. Realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.

Sinclair Lewis