"The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree."

-- Ray Davies

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“Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.”
“I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.”

Source : "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.
“I am nothing but I must be everything.”
“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.”
“Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?”
“Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.”
“nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.”

Source : Golden MacDonald, Margaret Wise Brown (1946). “The little island”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers
“Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.”

Source : Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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