#ren

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it. ↗

— Karl Radek

#changed #conditions #drew #even #every

Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#because #been #being #best #cherish

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." (Journal entry, 14 October 1922) ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#daring #empowerment #risk #self-confidence #self-determination

I like the idea of different theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass, a Bronx where people talk like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow kind, perhaps in the nook of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed anyone. ↗

— Bob Hicok

#different-lives #idaho #the-bronx #change

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#administrators #boards #children #decisions #educating

The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. ↗

— Fiorello LaGuardia

#bridges #burn #difference #i #makes

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#ears #figured #go #i #kid

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#became #children #finished #once #show