"My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves."

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Source : "I was only being honest" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2008.

Rachel Cusk

#Regret Quotes #Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.”

Source : Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press
“When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.”
“Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.”
“The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.”
“The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.”
“The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."”
“I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.”

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