"I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild."

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Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

Malcolm McDowell

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Children Quotes

“Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.”
“I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a ***** good-looking ***** you are.' And then I brighten up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.”

Source : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books
“Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...”
“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible..”
“Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.”
“... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who believe that nature is still and always will be one of the main (if not the main) sources of mathematical inspiration. The first group is identified as "pure mathematicians" (though "purist" would be more adequate) while the second is, with equal inadequacy, referred to as "applied".”
“Man, I really like Vegas.”

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