"Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?"

-- Frank N. Ikard

#Morning Quotes #Children Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.”
“O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”
“Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.”
“Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.”
“Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.”
“Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.”

Source : Nicole Williams (2014). “Lost & Found”, p.86, Nicole Williams
“A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.”
“There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.”

Source : "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2008.

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