"When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books."

-- Kathleen Norris

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Pride Quotes

“We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air”
“The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.”
“Take it and be thankful.”

Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Peculiar Treasures”, p.138, Harper Collins
“Beware the ire of the calm.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2015). “The Abbess of Crewe”, p.22, Canongate Books
“There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Whatever other children learn in a year, let BahÃ¡â€™Ã children learn in a month. The heart of â€˜Abduâ€™l-BahÃ¡ longeth, in its love, to find that BahÃ¡â€™Ã young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.”
“Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.”
“I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.”

Source : "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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