"I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand."

-- Laura E. Richards

#Children Quotes #Believe Quotes #Needs Quotes

“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.”
“There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.”
“Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (1983). “Shoeless Joe”, New York : Ballantine Books
“All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.”
“Your diet has to be number one. If you don't eat the right things, it doesn't matter who you are. Sometimes those foods treat people differently.”

Source : Source: www.nfl.com
“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin
“I believe that happiness is something we create”
“God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.”

Source : Arthur Peacocke (2013). “Paths From Science Towards God: The End of all Our Exploring”, p.86, Oneworld Publications

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