"In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear."

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Source : Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

Richard Watson Gilder

#Children Quotes #Garden Quotes #Yellow Quotes

“The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Jakes from Dec 22, 2014
“Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.”
“In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
“The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking Â— partly for the experience Â— it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.”
“The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?”
“I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.”
“While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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