"Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country."

-- Charles Darwin

#Country Quotes #Journey Quotes #Young Quotes

“The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.”
“I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.”
“Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.”

Source : "Apollo 11 crew recalls giant leap 35 years later". Interview With Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2004.
“There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.”
“My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. February 12, 2008.
“My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day...”
“Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.”
“The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".”

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