"You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go"

-- Diana Gabaldon

#Want Quotes #Want Me Quotes

“Even the worst book can give us something to think about.”
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”

Source : Marie Winn (1983). “Children Without Childhood”, New York : Pantheon Books
“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”
“I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.”
“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.”

Source : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alec Finlay (2012). “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections”, p.263, Univ of California Press
“In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books
“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”

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