"It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa."

-- James Thurber

#Mother Quotes #Hate Quotes #Garden Quotes

“I'm so accustomed to being alone.”
“The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.”
“Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.”
“Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.”
“You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.”
“Playtime and nature time are important not only for learning but also for health and development.”
“Everything you are comes from your choices.”

Source : "We Are What We Choose". Commencement speech to Princeton's Class of 2010, www.businessinsider.in. May 30, 2010.
“I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.”

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