"All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages."

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Source : Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

Robertson Davies

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper”
“The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.”

Source : Arthur Robert Jensen (1980). “Bias in Mental Testing”
“Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.”
“I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.”
“If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.”
“People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.”
“I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.”
“She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.”

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