"Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what."

-- Grace Kelly

#Daughter Quotes #Horse Quotes #Teenage Quotes

“The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.”

Source : "Which job skills will be most important in the future?". Interview with Eric Barker, theweek.com. December 17, 2013.
“Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.”
“Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.”
“One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.”
“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
“Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.”
“Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!”
“Children bring their own love with them when they come.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.17

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