"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."

-- Penelope Lively

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Might Quotes

“I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.”
“Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.”

Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press
“Some things are too important to be left to the private sector”
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.”
“Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough”
“You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.”
“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.”
“It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.”

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