"I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement."

-- Mary Ruefle

#Children Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.”
“I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.”
“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”

Source : Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”
“As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.”
“My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.”

Source : "Why Music, Part 5: Music and Education" by Frank Fitzpatrick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.
“To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.”
“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
“It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.”

Source : "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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