"Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins."

-- Thomas McGuane

#Sea Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.”
“[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.”
“When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.”
“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.279, Hachette UK
“I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.”
“IÂ don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. IÂ take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.”
“By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.”
“I think we're just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might see in the physical world.”

Source : "Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 22, 2005.

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