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Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare Ltd - Organisation supporting parents and childcare providers in Bristol, including offering advice on setting up out of school projects, funding advice, playwork training, resources, jobs, newsletter, events, police checks and childcare vouchers.
The Basement Studio - Youth music resource for marginalised young people combining professional youth work practice with training opportunities in music, music technology, sound recording and radio production: news, history, services, links, contact details.
Bristol Children's Scrapstore - Charity that makes practical use of scrap material for children's play activities. Details of services, membership, recycling and contact information.
Priority Youth Housing - Provide accommodation, support and advice for 16-25 year old single people living in the City.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Youth If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Youth A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Youth Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Youth Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde Youth There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Youth The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Youth Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Youth "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Youth The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Youth Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Youth "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Youth "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber Youth "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine Youth "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Youth After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Youth He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Youth There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Youth The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Youth Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Youth I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Youth Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Youth
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