"Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing"

-- John Muir

#Adventure Quotes #World Quotes #Prize Quotes

“Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.”
“You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.”
“The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.”
“Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.”
“The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.”
“Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.”

Source : Roland Merullo (2009). “A Little Love Story: A Novel”, p.96, Vintage
“That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.”
“It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.”

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