"The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange."

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.”
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.”
“Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always"...”
“All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.”
“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.”

Source : Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book
“The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.”
“It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.48, Vanderbilt University Press
“Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.”

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