"I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know."

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Source : Source: www.glamour.com

Ann M. Martin

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.”
“There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction”
“When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope with our situation more productively.”

Source : Kevin Eikenberry (2005). “Vantage Points on Learning and Life”, p.148, Dog Ear Publishing
“It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political station. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of immorality , he abuses his civic responsibilty. He sacrifices not only his own interest but that of his neighbor, and he betrays the interest of his country.”
“[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.”
“A winning effort begins with preparation.”
“The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit”
“It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.”

Source : "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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