"To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams."

-- Hanna Rosin

#Children Quotes #Long Quotes #Exam Quotes

“In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame, and win a lot of championships and all that. I'd love to be the owner of a team one day. But it's way bigger than that. For me, my vision is how can I affect somebody positively every day? When you focus on other people, somehow good things happen to you. I think that's my goal. That's my vision.”
“It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse.”
“One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.”
“Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.”

Source : 'A Taste of Honey' (1959) act 1, sc. 2
“We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?”
“The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.”

Source : Thomas Dubay (1981). “Happy Are You Poor”
“I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.”
“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

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