"Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction."

-- W. H. Auden

#Children Quotes #Hero Quotes #History Quotes

“Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)”
“Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”
“Gravity wins over all other known forces.”
“Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.”
“You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.”
“Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.”
“The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.”

Source : Brock Yates (2003). “Cannonball!”, p.13, MotorBooks International
“love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight”

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