"They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day."

-- David Almond

#Angel Quotes #Wings Quotes #One Day Quotes

“Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.”
“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.”
“If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?”
“Books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
“He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.”

Source : "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.
“I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday”
“A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.”
“When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."”

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