"It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years."

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Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Miles Franklin

#Wise Quotes #Years Quotes #Generations Quotes

“If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business.”
“And the spirit of Superman is great to have around.”

Source : "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.
“Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.”

Source : "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, kearth101.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.
“One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.”
“What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?”
“For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.”
“Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.”

Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.”

Source : "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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