"It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential."

-- Brad Henry

#Children Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!”

Source : David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.78
“Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.”
“I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, heâ€™s a soccer playerâ€”fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game. I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.”
“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
“The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.”
“There is no better therapy than understanding.”
“It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.”

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