“The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establishment of a new kind of school where young people of all nations and backgrounds could live and learn together at the most formative period of their adolescence and so form those ties of friendship and understanding that would last them through their lives”
“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he whom studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
“Sign O' The TimesOh yeahIn France a skinny manDied of a big disease with a little nameBy chance his girlfriend came across a needleAnd soon she did the sameAt home there are seventeen-year-old boysAnd their idea of funIs being in a gang called The DisciplesHigh on crack, totin' a machine gunTime, timeHurricane Annie ripped the ceiling of a churchAnd killed everyone insideU turn on the telly and every other storyIs tellin' U somebody diedSister killed her baby cuz she could afford 2 feed itAnd we're sending people 2 the moonIn September my cousin tried reefer 4 the very first timeNow he's doing horse, it's JuneTimes, timesIt's silly, no?When a rocket ship explodesAnd everybody still wants 2 flySome say a man ain't happyUnless a man truly diesOh whyTime, timeBaby make a speech, Star Wars flyNeighbors just shine it onBut if a night falls and a bomb fallsWill anybody see the dawnTime, timesIt's silly, no?When a rocket blowsAnd everybody still wants 2 flySome say a man ain't happy, trulyUntil a man truly diesOh why, oh why, Sign O the TimesTime, timeSign O the Times mess with your mindHurry before it's 2 lateLet's fall in love, get married, have a babyWe'll call him Nate... if it's a boyTime, timeTime, time”
“But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.”
“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
“It is said some lives are linked across time. Connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages. Destiny.”
“I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability”