"It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much."

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Source : Archibald Rutledge (2015). “The Doom of Ravenswood”, p.34, Univ of South Carolina Press

Archibald Rutledge

#Children Quotes #Giving Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.”
“In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.”
“Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!”
“What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.”
“I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.”
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
“A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.”
“You structure your system to fit him if he's going to be your guy.”

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