Famous quotes containing the words minimal, left and/or ideal:
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)
“Zola: I need someone to remind me of the old, struggling, carefree days. Fighting for a foothold.
Paul Cézanne: You can never go back to it. And I never left it.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)
“The air was so elastic and crystalline that it had the same effect on the landscape that a glass has on a picture, to give it an ideal remoteness and perfection.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)