Quotes about fledglings (3 Quotes)


    Stevie Rae looked from vampyre to vampyre. ôYÆall need to get your shit together. HereÆs a newsflash from the only High Priestess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isnÆt dead. And believe me, I know dead. IÆve been there, done that, and got the frickinÆ T-shirt.ö Stevie Rae turned her back on the room and, with her fledglings, got the heck outta there.

    We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man.

    He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.



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