James Longfellow:  

James is from Hooksett, New Hampshire. He is married to Melanie Longfellow. His schools include Hooksett - Memorial Junior High School, Central High School, Trinity High School, Underhill Elementary School, Lincoln School, Maynard School. He later attended Hesser College (Business Administration, Computer Science). He works(ed) at Longfellow Orthodontic Laboratory, Longfellow DJ Service, New Hampshire Union Leader/Sunday News. James's interests include Camping, Cycling, Swimming, Cooking, Freestyle Motocross, Monster Trucks and gadgets. Music he likes includes Classical Music, Classic Rock, Rock, R&B, Easy Listening, Books he likes include Crime and Punishment, The Dark Tower Series, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Patricia Cornwell, Peter Straub. Movies he likes include How To Get Ahead in Advertising, Zombieland, The Grey (MOVIE). TV shows he likes include The Walking Dead, Bates Motel, The Returned, Deadliest Catch, Ax Men, Swamp People. Alaska: The Last Frontier, Chopped. One of James's favorite quotes is:""Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." Denis Waitley "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill "Fear not those who argue but those who dodge." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have" Thomas Jefferson "If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued." John Holt "the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions." - Noam Chomsky "School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency." H.L. Mencken "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." George Santayana "Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities." Seymour Papert "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis "Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." Michael Levine Life is too short to wake up with regrets. ♥ So love the people who treat you right. ♥ Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be e...Expand for more