"I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common."

-- Clare Balding

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Common Quotes

“Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.”
“Kiss me....Cassie....Like you mean it.”
“if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.”

Source : Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century
“Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.”
“Fundamental rights are not a given today. We have to protect them.”
“You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.”
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
“Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.”

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