"People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time."

-- Muriel Barbery

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “A Calculated Risk: A Novel”, p.56, Open Road Media
“I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.”

Source : "The Legend of Michael Phelps". abcnews.go.com. August 14, 2016.
“We know there are a lot of good secondaries out there. We are just trying to focus on what we can do to get better. We've got some new, young guys coming in and we are trying to catch them up to speed. We are trying to make sure that we have depth, making sure the guys behind us know what is going on. We are going to keep pushing each other to raise the standard for our secondary.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.”
“I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.”
“And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?”
“On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!”
“Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines ...”

Source : Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins

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