"The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent."

“I am grateful for all the military families that I've met. I wanted to spread hope and cheer to all; little did I know that they would be the ones to change my life the way they have!”

“I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.”

“People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.”

“Imagination comes in after we have experience.”

“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”

“In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.”

“The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.”

“So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.”

Source : John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK