Urie Bronfenbrenner Sayings

#1. In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#2. Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#4. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#5. Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Samuel Richardson

#6. I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.

Rick Steves

#7. ...hatching his poems..

Susanna Clarke

#8. Every action that you take - that your disorder tells you to take - is self-harming in the short and long term.

Priyavrat Thareja

#9. There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#10. Also, he had the kind of mustache a college roommate of hers used to say looked like it had crawled up to find a warm spot to die.

Lorrie Moore

#11. Far from the hateful cause of all his woes. Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan'd in Philacus' chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack'd his labouring mind!

Homer

#12. Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.

Gene Luen Yang

#13. No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#14. You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

Michael Caine

#15. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#16. Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who's crazy about that child

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#17. If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

James D. Watson

#18. Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

Andrew Breitbart

#19. the very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art

Rupi Kaur

#20. Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

Renee Ellmers