"The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child."

-- Richard Louv

#Weed Quotes #Nature Quotes #Children Quotes

“The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley
“I want to hold you, Nikki. Will you let me?”
“We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature. Solitude is a place where Christ remodels us in his own image and frees us from the victimizing compulsions of the world.”
“I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.”
“Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.”
“I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.”
“'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!”

Source : Carolyn Wells (2016). “Childhood Essentials Library - Carolyn Wells Edition: 29 Novels & 150+ Poems, Stories, Fables & Charades for Children (Illustrated): Patty Fairfield Series, Marjorie Maynard Collection, Two Little Women Trilogy, Mother Goose's Menagerie, The Jingle Book, A Phenomenal Fauna, The Seven Ages of Childhood, Children of Our Town¦”, p.4002, e-artnow
“It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.”

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