"And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change."

-- Mark Haddon

#Father Quotes #Distance Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work”
“I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.”

Source : "Sens. DeMint & Murkowski and Chairman Kaine on 'State of the Union'". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 19, 2010.
“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
“Marriage is a wonderful thing.”
“The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known.”
“Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.”
“In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.”

Source : Source: www.scholastic.com
“Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.”

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