Amity Shlaes Quotes

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

Amity Shlaes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

EducationChildAccountingParent

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Maya Angelou

LoveMusicBeautifulArtYouFall

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

John Piper

BeautyJusticeDiversityBibleMany

I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

Aly Raisman

BestTeamThinkingI CanFirstJust

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

CarRainWalkShineShortCome

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

Toussaint Louverture

WarMeWantNeedHimNecessary

I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.

Tre Cool

LoveI Love YouListeningYouYes

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

Rupert Holmes

WorkTimeMeBusyCareerNew

The furthest I can see is me being 60.

Lukas Forchhammer

MeI CanSeeBeingFurthest

I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

Luke Bryan

LifePositiveEnjoy LifeCelebrate

Be not scared to use your voice.

Logic

VoiceScaredYourUse

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Diane Ackerman

WorldSurviveSmallIceWonderOwn

I like to play in the middle, even though I can play on both wings.

David Silva

WingsI CanPlayMiddleLikeEven

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