"One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long."

-- Charles William Eliot

#Education Quotes #Book Quotes #Class Quotes

“Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone”

Source : Song: Snow Is Gone
“What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.”

Source : Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”
“I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.”
“Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.”
“But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.”

Source : Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.292, Penguin
“I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.”
“We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK
“So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.”

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