"It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own."

-- Katherine Paterson

#Happiness Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Children Quotes

“Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.”
“The group MoveOn.org has called on John McCain to release all of his medical records. In response, McCain told them, 'Why don't you just come down to the warehouse and look around for yourself? Bring a forklift, it'll take time.'”
“A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.”

Source : "Lords of the Press". Book by George Seldes, 1938.
“A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.”
“Woman must be put back in her place. Manâ€™s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees â€“ where she belongs. â€¦ Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. â€¦ She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.”
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

Source : J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.”
“I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn't done it 'that much.' It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom.”

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