"I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room."

-- David Copperfield

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Only Child Quotes

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
“Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.]”
“I owe my life to blood donors. They went out, rolled up a sleeve and gave me another chance at life.”
“When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.”

Source : "Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202". Interview with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.
“I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.”
“Today anything can be done - we have the techniques”

Source : "THE SATURDAY PROFILE; How India's Mother of Invention Built an Industry". www.nytimes.com. August 16, 2003.
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
“Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.”

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