"People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books."

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Source : Jennifer Chiaverini (2013). “An Elm Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series”, p.12, Penguin

Jennifer Chiaverini

#Book Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.”
“A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.”

Source : 1822 In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962-70).
“We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.”
“Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing”
“I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.”
“You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your feelings get involved and they begin changing things for you and they go on and on till you only see your feelings, and that's why you see this mess.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

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