"As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children."

-- Beverly Cleary

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2954, Agate Digital
“We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.”
“Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.”
“For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.”

Source : "Altered Carbon". Book by Richard Morgan, 2002.
“I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.”
“Sunday is a day of rest.”
“We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.”
“When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.”

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