"The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how"

-- Joel Plaskett

#Growing Up Quotes #Growing Quotes #Never Quit Quotes

“The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency for it. Parents don't like it, administrators don't like it, and kids don't like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it--which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.”
“I'd never have written the big books in London.”
“After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.”
“What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.”

Source : "No, Christian Louboutin, wearing high heels does not lead to orgasm!" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2011.
“Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.”

Source : Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster
“The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.”
“I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe.”
“It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.231, Vintage

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