"As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What I hate - a lot of conversations about choosing not to have children tend to be couched in these superficial terms, or kind of glib, "I'd rather have a Porsche" or "I forgot to have kids." No you didn't."

-- Meghan Daum

#Children Quotes #Hate Quotes #Kids Quotes

“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
“You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.”
“I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.”
“Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for thatâ€”because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.”

Source : Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.”
“I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.”
“I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.”
“There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.”

Source : Of All Things ch. 20 (1921)

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