"If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults."

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Richard Louv

#Children Quotes #Eye Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.”
“The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen, Roger Greenwald (2002). “North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press
“Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.”
“I've been married nearly 34 years, I'm not perfect, I've made mistakes.”
“The most starstruck I've been is when I met Sol Campbell when he was a Tottenham Hotspur player. I don't get starstruck by actors I work with, because you have some sort of relationship with them. Like, I worked with Tom Cruise [on Interview With The Vampire], so if I saw him again I'd speak to him as an actor. Although he might not be interested in talking to me.”
“The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.
“In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.”

Source : Michael Palmer (2007). “The Fifth Vial”, p.34, Macmillan

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