Tadpoles – Quotes

There\\’s a part of

There’s a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality. Ellen Bass

If we do not

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Friedrich Schiller

Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace … To the Darwinian, the … Read more

This is Lakshmi Singh.

“This is Lakshmi Singh.” It’s like a tadpole dying in muck. Take a drink. Wet your mouth. Doug Stanhope

Question four: What book

Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn’t give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and … Read more

I ran around with

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. DeForest Kelley

I know every numbskull

I know every numbskull will babble on about black man, maneater, chance, and retrospective interpretation, in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the … Read more