"It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die."

-- John Thorn

#Children Quotes #Boys Quotes #Past Quotes

“They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.”
“Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.”

Source : Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA
“Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.”
“The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.”
“I've never had a day at work where I wasn't thrilled and grateful to be there, wherever that might be.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.”

Source : "Acne, alcohol ... and non-stop sex" by Lynda Lee-Potter, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 6, 2003.
“My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.”
“The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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