"Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!"

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Rivers Quotes #Feet Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.”
“Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.”

Source : "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.
“Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.”
“I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.”
“Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.209, Rowman & Littlefield
“When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far.”
“Quality is pride of workmanship.”
“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.”

Source : James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.109, U of Nebraska Press

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