"When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret."

-- Robert Fulghum

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.”
“It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.”

Source : Elizabeth Hand (2013). “Generation Loss”, p.11, Hachette UK
“One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.”
“It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.”
“Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over youâ€™ll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, thereâ€™s no going back.”

Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Queste: Septimus Heap”, p.333, Bloomsbury Publishing
“It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.”
“What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.”
“I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?”

Source : Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.

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