"One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day."

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Source : "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

Susan Orlean

#Children Quotes #Snow Quotes #Joy Quotes

“You can`t differentiate between an Islamic terrorist and a Christian terrorist. Or a politically motivated terrorist who`s anti-abortion or someone who may have differing views.”
“Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?”

Source : Louise Meriwether (2002). “Daddy was a Number Runner”, p.55, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.”

Source : Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.15, Springer Science & Business Media
“The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.”
“I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.”
“It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.”
“My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.”

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