"You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Morning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.”
“The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.”
“When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.57, Faber & Faber
“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.”
“Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.”
“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart
“Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.”
“I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.”

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