"Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Children Quotes #Water Quotes #Doe Quotes

“There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.”
“A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.”
“[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.”
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235
“I really like reading about how families work together.”
“You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.”
“I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.”
“There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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