"All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school."

-- Buffy Sainte-Marie

#School Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom”

Source : "Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.
“The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.”
“Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.”
“Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.”

Source : Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson (2010). “Variable Star”, p.212, Macmillan
“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”
“But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.”
“We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.”
“Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.175, Macmillan

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