Maria Quotes

A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The ninos santos (Psilocybe mexicana) heal. They lower fevers, cure colds, and give freedom from toothaches. They pull the evil spirits out of the body or free the spirit of the sick.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?

No one can be free unless he is independent.

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

The child will reveal himself through work.

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.