"That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination."

-- Ramona Koval

#Education Quotes #Mother Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.”

Source : The Gold Coast Bulletin, en.wikiquote.org. October 26, 2002.
“College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.”
“Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.”
“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”
“I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.”
“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.”
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
“The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.”

Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

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