"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."

-- Richard Louv

#Nature Quotes #Parenting Quotes #Woods Quotes

“My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.”
“I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.”

Source : Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.
“Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.”
“Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.”

Source : Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.50, University of Illinois Press
“It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.”
“I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.”
“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”
“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”

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