"The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors."

-- Michael Chabon

#Children Quotes #Taken Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.”
“I've always wanted to see my name up in tights.”
“Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.”
“God loves happy people.”
“Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.”

Source : Peter Earle (2013). “The Pirate Wars”, p.4, Macmillan
“Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.”

Source : "Ryan Lochte's Favorite Pickup Line". Interview with Cassie Shortsleeve, www.menshealth.com. November 5, 2012.
“I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.”
“In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.”

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