Telling Children About Hard Topics Quotes

#1. The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us.
Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

Jared Leto

#2. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Tsk, Tsk, Sunshine. I believe I have a wanton wench on my hands. Unfortunately for you, I'm in control here, not you.

Lainie Suzanne

#4. If you are going to put your ass in front of someone, at least have one.

Sinara Ellis

#5. Affirmative action benefits NO ONE. It discriminates against Asian American and White students, while promoting negative stereotypes about the competency of African American students -- that they only got in because of their race, not merit.

Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam

#6. Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

Thom Yorke

#7. Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#8. In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.

Gloria Steinem

#9. Art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose

Walter Pater

#10. I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

George Pataki

#11. Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Samuel Johnson

#12. I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

Candice Swanepoel

#13. Loneliness is holding in a joke because you have no one to share it with.

Neil Strauss

#14. My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

Adam Mansbach