"When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring"

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Source : Margaret Wise Brown (1997). “Pussy Willow”, Golden Books

Margaret Wise Brown

#Spring Quotes #Shining Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.”
“Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.”
“Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.”
“Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.”
“I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly individual acts of rebellion. I am constantly challenging the perception of what a hat should be and what role it should play.”
“You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“I totally think that the likelihood upon this whole galaxy and universe, we are the only ones... I don't think we are.”
“Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.”

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