"Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England."

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Source : Sharon Kay Penman (2008). “Here Be Dragons”, p.135, Macmillan

Sharon Kay Penman

#Heaven Quotes #England Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Do right. Risk the consequences.”
“I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.”

Source : "Slumdog professor" by Lucy Tobin, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.
“The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.”
“If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.”
“I think when you're younger and making things, it's something that you have to fight through, to finish things. I feel like I'm past that stage, and I get the appreciation for being in that moment, and soaking it in.”
“He will have true glory who despises it.”

Source : "History of Rome" by Livy, Book XXII, sec. 39,
“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”
“You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”

Source : Cab Calloway, Bryant Rollins (1976). “Of Minnie the Moocher and Me”, New York : Thomas J. Crowell Company

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