"Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life."

-- Maria Edgeworth

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes

“My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.”
“People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.”
“Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”
“Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.”
“Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.”

Source : "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.
“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.”
“Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. ... The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.”

Source : "H. Bentley Glass, Provocative Science Theorist, Dies at 98" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. January 20, 2005.
“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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