"The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed"

-- Simon Barnes

#Green Quotes #Dresses Quotes #Caps Quotes

“People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.”
“The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.9, Read Books Ltd
“Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.”
“Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Stearns from Feb 20, 2012
“Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.”
“You mirror what the world mirrors to you.”
“Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the test will increase over time for again both Marine Corps and the Army just to make sure everyone is physically fit enough to go through these jobs, to get through this training.”
“I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.”

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