"The early worm deserves the bird."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Bird Quotes #Moral Quotes #Manners Quotes

“I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.”
“I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.”
“I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.”
“I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
“All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.”
“Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasnâ€™t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesnâ€™t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.”
“The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...”

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