"One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that."

-- Charles Clarke

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Passion Quotes

“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
“The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392
“Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.”
“If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of the concert hall, the whole thing. If one of those musicians is sharply out of tune or starts to play a different piece of music than all the others in the orchestra, you immediately notice. When you analyze systems by listening, you can just listen, and you can tell whether the system is healthy or unhealthy. What I've created for you is a perfect model of how we should be listening to our stock market, rather than trying to see it graphically.”
“Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.”
“She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.”
“Itâ€™s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.”

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