"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."

-- Rebecca Harding Davis

#Hero Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Clay Quotes

“I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”
“I work out, but not like I should.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.”

Source : Michael Crichton (2012). “Congo”, p.166, Vintage
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.”
“How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.”

Source : Margo Lanagan (2012). “The Brides of Rollrock Island”, p.34, Random House
“God never violates the trust we put in Him.”
“Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.”

Source : Candice Bergen (2014). “Knock Wood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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