"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."

-- Charles Kuralt

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Firefighter Quotes

“Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”
“A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.”
“And Iâ€™m yours,â€ I tell him. â€œForever and always and then some.”
“I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.”
“Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1850). “Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848”, p.118, London, C. Gilpin
“I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.”

Source : "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.
“Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.”
“TVâ€”a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.”

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