Sheri Fresonke Harper > Sheri Fresonke's Quotes

“We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”
― Walt Whitman

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ‘When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?”
― Ian McEwan, The Child in Time

“Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tolkien Reader

“I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Innocence is a better world.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon