"Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!"

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Source : George Pope Morris, Horace Binney Wallace, Maria Edgeworth (1860). “Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.140

George Pope Morris

#Time Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Long Quotes

“If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.”
“Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I've been blessed with two beautiful daughters. It is amazing how inadequate I can feel in being able to protect, teach, and take care of them. I'm not talking about a paranoid the-world-is-a-dangerous-place kind of way. I mean when they just give me a simple look or ask me something like "Where do stars comes from, Daddy?" I'm opened up in a way I had not thought possible.”
“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
“It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”
“I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.”
“The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray....”
“It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.”

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