"Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can."

-- Grace Meng

#Queens Quotes #Children Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...”, p.137
“Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.”
“My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?”
“The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.”
“Amazing uke playing to be relished.”
“Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.”
“There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.”

Source : Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.21, Faber & Faber
“In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.”

Source : "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 24, 2010.

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