"The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#War Quotes #Long Quotes #World Quotes

“We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.”
“I love my baby more than anything. He's like a Gerber baby. He's the cutest baby in the whole world.”

Source : "Bristol Palin’s Harper’s Bazaar Spread: Sarah’s Daughter Models Designer Gowns In Tea Party-Themed Shoot". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2010.
“Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.”
“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune Following the donkey`s bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses On the high door of a skull and in some corner Of an irrefrangible eye Some old man memory jumps to a child Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”
“The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.”

Source : "The Arts and the Creation of Mind". Book by Elliot W. Eisner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.
“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.”

Source : John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”
“Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.”
“Worry worships the words of the enemy”

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