"Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it."

-- Clare Balding

#Attitude Quotes #Children Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I would rather be called funny than pretty.”

Source : "Live From" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2004.
“Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long”

Source : Song: Life is a Highway, Album: Mad Mad World
“It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.”

Source : William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.105, New Directions Publishing
“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.”

Source : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1905). “AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1”
“I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.”
“A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.”
“My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes”
“You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.”

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