"Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language."

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Source : Beverly Cleary (1998). “The Mouse and the motorcycle”

Beverly Cleary

#Boys Quotes #Two Quotes #Motorcycle Quotes

“Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.”
“Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.”
“Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.”

Source : Joseph M. Marshall III (2005). “The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History”, p.211, Penguin
“Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.”
“I try to relax and enjoy it. I don't really get nervous, I get excited! I love training, but my main excitement comes from when I'm racing and the better the standard of people I'm racing, the more excited I get and the more 'up for it' I get.”
“Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture. For example, in education, a teacher might say in the next class he was going to "explain Young's modulus and how to measure it," rather than, "I am going to educate the students and prepare them for their future careers".”
“If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.”
“The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you might never guess that he passed that way, so sure and careful was every footfall.”

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