quotes about Child Rearing

“The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.”

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”

“I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.”

“Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.”

“If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.”

“When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.”

“Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.”

“With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1836). “An Outline of the Science of Political Economy”, p.130

“If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.”

“I always want to be doing both to travel as a teacher and lecturer, and to be a musician. I think in this generation institutionalizing the art form and spreading it to the younger generation through education is really important for all artists to have some hand in. Right now in popular culture and the mainstream, it's not a big part at all. I think education by young artists talking to young people, not just older people talking to young people, it gives an experience never felt before. I think over the years it will do a lot for the music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com