"I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity."

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Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

Rachel Johnson

#Children Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”
“Liberty for each, for all, and forever!”
“I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.”
“My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.”
“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House
“Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.”
“Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.”

Source : Isaac Watts (1743). “Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead”, p.7
“Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.”

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