"A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation."

-- Hafez Ibrahim

#Mother Quotes #School Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of.”

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.86, Cambridge University Press
“No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.”
“You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can change... but it takes blood, sweat and tears.”
“A typical master. Right to the end, he didnâ€™t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment Iâ€™d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.”

Source : Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion
“We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.”
“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.”
“Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.”

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