"Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much."

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Source : Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.173, Dell

Homer Hickam

#Doe Quotes #World Quotes #Easy Quotes

“And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.”
“If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity”
“Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.”
“Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.”
“The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.”
“The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.”
“I'm going to have cute ***** 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best ***** in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.”

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