"I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside,"

-- Tommy Douglas

#Boys Quotes #Class Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.”
“Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.”
“I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.”
“And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.”

Source : "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.
“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.”
“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2007). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC
“Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.”
“You're either making a market or disrupting a market. Entering a market is usually the wrong way to go.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 11, 2014

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