"It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh."

-- Art Buchwald

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Silly Quotes

“I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.”
“What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!”
“My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.”
“Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.”
“Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.”
“Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.”

Source : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.88, Heinemann
“50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.”
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”

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