"I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years."

-- David Boies

#Summer Quotes #Boys Quotes #Years Quotes

“Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.”

Source : E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.6990, Delphi Classics
“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.”

Source : Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage....They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”
“We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.”
“You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar”
“I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.”
“I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.”
“I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street”

Source : Song: Overdrive, Album: Because I Can

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