"My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal."

-- Emmeline Pankhurst

#Children Quotes #Home Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.”
“If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?”
“Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.”

Source : "Fictional character: Charlie Allnut". "The African Queen", 1951.
“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”
“I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected”
“The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.”
“Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.”
“Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.”

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