"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress."

-- Chris Van Allsburg

#Girl Quotes #Horse Quotes #School Quotes

“...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.”
“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.”
“Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.”
“The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.”
“I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.”
“I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.”
“I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.”
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”

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