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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.


Jack Zipes

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THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
THE CHILDREN I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west L...
BEL POWLEY We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD.
JUDY MCDERMOTT She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"
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"Sadie," My d...
RICK RIORDAN I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO A lot of people think we are a total magnet school, ... Really, we are an elementary school with a m...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER A lot of people think we are a total magnet school. Really, we are an elementary school with a magne...
CATHEY HENDRICKS Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called...
JOSHUA FOER The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's ...
DARELL HAMMOND My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m...
BILL O'REILLY My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m...
BILL O'REILLY Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children...
JONATHAN KOZOL Small schools are a wonderful thing for students and for community involvement in the schools. An el...
DAVID KERN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cit...
NANCY LUBLIN I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and...
ED BEGLEY, JR. Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program ...
CLINT BOLICK If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage ...
MIKE DAVIDSON Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize ...
DANIEL GOLEMAN I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am ...
CHRIS RIDDELL In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in o...
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS I love Fredorator and what they produce and the storytelling of 'Adventure Time'... There...
MICHELLE PHAN No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
CAROL BELLAMY What matters is what we do with the life we have.
CARRIE RYAN Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was ...
AKIVA BEN JOSEPH There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So t...
JOHN UPDIKE I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the comp...
JOHN CARROLL LYNCH The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peopl...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Fr...
TRACY K. SMITH I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we ...
JIM BROWN I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be ge...
RAELYNN In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Abor...
RICHARD FLANAGAN I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Wa...
J. C. WATTS It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C. I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and thei...
A. S. BYATT The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's...
MAYA ANGELOU One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That'...
WENDY CRAIG There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written e...
RYAN NORTH There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an...
BARRY SONNENFELD When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay toge...
SHERYL SANDBERG I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of loc...
KERRY WASHINGTON Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as...
JOE BACA We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.
BETSY DEVOS A successful bond issue would allow an elementary be built in that neighborhood, which is critical t...
STEVE COLEMAN In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skill...
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate i...
BOB FILNER Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout th...
MARK RYLANCE 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, a...
EDDIE REDMAYNE Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working...
COLLEEN HASKELL My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nie...
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For ...
CHERIE BLAIR Several elementary school teachers had described me as a 'future authoress or poetess.' Moth...
MARGO JEFFERSON I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which...
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JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils.
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JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma...
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JACK WHITEHALL I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha...
JACK WHITEHALL Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
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JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
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JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate...
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JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
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JACK SCHMITT My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
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JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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JACK REYNOR 'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really i...
JACK REYNOR I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City ...
JACK REYNOR The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy ...
JACK REYNOR When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that wa...
JACK REYNOR I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absol...
JACK REYNOR I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in th...
JACK REYNOR So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say...
JACK REYNOR I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you&...
JACK REYNOR My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggre...
JACK REYNOR With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That'...
JACK REYNOR I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland...
JACK REYNOR If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
JACK REYNOR There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can&...
JACK REYNOR My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
JACK REYNOR The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact th...
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