"For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball."

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Source : 1948 Carts and Candlesticks.

Alison Uttley

#Brother Quotes #Time Quotes #Real Quotes

“A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break.”
“I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.”
“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”
“I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.”
“Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.”
“She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When the director said cut, I saw a black nose and two paws inching out from under the cloth. She had hidden there without making a sound until we were done with the scene. She wanted to be nearer to me.”
“Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.”
“I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.”

Source : "Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization". Book by Steven Solomon (p. 495), www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.

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