"It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment."

-- Kenneth Grahame

#Song Quotes #Hero Quotes #Home Quotes

“Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.”
“There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now”
“I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didnt even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.”
“In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the childrenâ€™s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories Iâ€™ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity.Â The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured upâ€”although a few of them areâ€”because thereâ€™s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!â€”but itâ€™s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both childrenâ€™s books and the collection of people who make them.”
“No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.”
“The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.”
“Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.”
“We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.”

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