Young Minds Quotes - Page 2

• Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Years, Mind, Three

  'A Taste of Honey' (1959) act 1, sc. 2

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• So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

  Roald Dahl

  Strong, Book, Sea

  "Matilda". Book by Roald Dahl, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 1988.

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• The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Education, Organization, Training

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• This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes for history classes today, and is still widely used. It has sold over 2 million copies since it was first published in 1980 and continues to sell over 100,000 copies a year because it is required reading at many of our high schools and colleges. That's a lot of young minds."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Reading, School, College

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Hip Hop, Mind

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• In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Women, Integrity

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.55, Routledge

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• A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

  Mike Lupica

  Army, Two, Mind

  Mike Lupica (2007). “Heat”, p.43, Penguin

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• The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Mind, Age, Stronger

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• Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Errors, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.20, Yale University Press

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• Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

  Jack McDevitt

  Running, School, Opportunity

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

  Fanny Kemble

  Beautiful, Education, Light

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• [Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

  Michael Chabon

  Mind, Cards, Pleasure

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• NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.

  Horace Mann

  Lying, Errors, Mind

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.69

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• The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

  "Space All systems go for National Space Day". CNN, May 4, 2000.

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• When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Education, College

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Children, Native American, Journey

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• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Children, Growing Up

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

  Broderick Crawford

  Eye, Mind, Young

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• I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

  Aaron Klug

  Teaching, Responsibility, Years

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• Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

  Lev Grossman

  Believe, Book, Order

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• Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Practice, Mind, Incentives

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• Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest animals as beings which, like people, have been summoned to the joy of life.

  Samson Raphael Hirsch

  Animal, People, Joy

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• Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

  Horace Mann

  Spring, Rain, Book

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.17

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• I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Jewish Tradition, Giving

  "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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