Famous quotes containing the words soft, negative and/or imperative:
“It is love that walks away
and yet we have terrible mouths
and soft milk hands.
We worry with like.
We walk away like love.
”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“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)
“To me Americanism means ... an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.”
—Meyer London (1871–1926)