"There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed."

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Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.357, e-artnow

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#Travel Quotes #Kind Quotes #Far Away Quotes

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
“That's one of the most bold smacks in the face in this country. It's a way to say, "Look, we just don't even care about you," the price of healthcare in this country.”
“We need the poor as much as they need us..”
“Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.”
“Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.”

Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers
“We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control”
“I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.”
“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”

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