"Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up."

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Source : Howard Fast (1978). “The immigrants”, G K Hall & Co

Howard Fast

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Chance Quotes

“It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can.”
“People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.”
“You can look in every direction and find a competition or an event going on. Even if you're not involved in playing one of the sports being offered, you can find anything you want to do. There's shopping, entertainment, all different types of people ... it's really a great atmosphere.”
“A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.”
“When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.5
“This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.”
“I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.”
“I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'”

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