"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."

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Chris Van Allsburg

#Children Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Magic Quotes

“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”
“It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.”
“Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.”
“The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.”
“I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.44, Vintage
“People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.”
“And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.”

Source : Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2
“It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.”

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