"I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace"

-- Ann M. Martin

#Horse Quotes #School Quotes #Independent Quotes

“Determination is the strength needed to succeed.”
“To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.”

Source : James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...”, p.173
“Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government...”
“Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.”
“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.”
“The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.”
“We get one of these little pings on our smartphones, and we get a little hit of dopamine as well. We get excited. We feel anticipation. As we feel this, we want it more and more. So we spend more and more time looking at our phones.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect”

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