"Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief."

-- Wilma Mankiller

#Girl Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Might Quotes

“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 5), 1688.
“Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2007). “Swordspoint”, p.333, Spectra
“Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.”
“I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.”
“Never place a period where God has placed a comma.”

Source : "Two Minutes for God: Quick Fixes for the Spirit". Book by Peter B. Panagore, 2007.
“In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.”
“Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.”
“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”

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