"The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give."

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Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

Ellen Glasgow

#Giving Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I don't believe you can buy style. Money won't make you look good.”

Source : Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.
“There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.”
“With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.”
“Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.”
“I am not a public speaker and never will be.”
“I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.”
“You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.”

Source : "With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country" by Alexander Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
“Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.”

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