"My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you donâ€™t see.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.”

Source : Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger, Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.
“I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.”
“It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.”
“In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.”
“The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.”
“I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.”

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