"A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar."

-- Simeon Strunsky

#Family Quotes #Children Quotes #Tables Quotes

“It would be a foetus of monarchy!”
“Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.”
“Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.”
“You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.”
“Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.”
“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.”

Source : Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics
“But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.”
“Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.”

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