"Childhood is a branch of cartography."

-- Michael Chabon

#Childhood Quotes #Branches Quotes #Cartography Quotes

“Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.”

Source : Jenni Rivera (2013). “Unbreakable: My Story, My Way”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.”
“Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.”
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”

Source : Thomas Moore, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes”, p.195
“Nothing is more revealing than movement.”
“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”
“A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.”
“We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.”

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