“Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.”

“When our mind can no longer see that these are kids in front of us, we start calling them adults.”

Joshua Leavitt

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us…”

John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher

“There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician

“A human being is like a television set with millions of channels…. We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer

“We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.”

Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist

“Most humans think the appearance of quietquiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children

“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet… maybe we could understand something.”

Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker