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Temple Grandin Quotes

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Temple Grandin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1947

Topics

Good Mother Parents Me Comfort Zone

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Angela Carter

Memories Nostalgia Movies Old Vice

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

John Searles

Family College Gone Even Ever Had

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Amitava Kumar

Academic Books Like Self-Help Every

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Strong Slow Short Learn Tall Get

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

Tom Flynn

Truth Cold Truth Is Universe Human

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Robert Baden-Powell

Daily Time Environment Country Right

We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.

Robin Zander

Thought Always Illinois International

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

Rory Stewart

Stupid Surprise Friends Said Idea

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

Mike Wallace

Love Place Urgency Battles Take

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.

Lorenzo Snow

I Am Here Convicted Am Sentenced

I've spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. That was a lot of fun.

Jason O'Mara

Fun Upside Down Fighting Down Three

The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

Christen Press

Life American Speed You Look Know