Westfield Day Nursery - A small, private educational nursery school for thirty five children between the ages of two and five. Examples of children's work, photos and background information about the nursery
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Education It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Education
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Education
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Education For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "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) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Education
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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Education
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Education "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Education
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Education
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Education "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Education
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Education "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Education
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Education "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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