"It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid."

--

Lauren Oliver

#Kids Quotes #Wish Quotes #Want Quotes

“Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government!”
“... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.”
“The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.”
“I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.”
“It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they here.”
“The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn.”
“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”
“After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.”

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