Cat Quotes - Page 61

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.

Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.