"I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either."

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Source : Source: www.progressive.org

Harry Hay

#Girl Quotes #Boys Quotes #Boyish Quotes

“We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.”
“The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.”
“It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.”
“Success is on the far side of failure.”
“To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.”
“I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but thereâ€™s a garden inside me.”

Source : Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.54, Penguin
“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”
“I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”

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