"I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character [Porky Pig], couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest."

-- Bob Bergen

#Character Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday
“Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.”
“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you donâ€™t have anything worth giving.”
“He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.”
“We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.”
“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”
“Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.”

Source : Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”
“I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.”

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