Capable

Famous quotes containing the word capable:

    Although the pattern prevailed,
    The breaks were everywhere. That she could think
    Of no thread capable of the necessary
    Sew-work.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won’t amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.
    Haim Ginott (20th century)

    ... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.
    Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 8 (1962)