"how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries."

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Source : Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

Jan Struther

#Children Quotes #Fun Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already”
“The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.”

Source : Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”
“I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.”
“Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.”

Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena... whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena... I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.”
“The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run. The general idea is that what works most of the time is nearly the opposite of what works in the long run.”
“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”
“You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.”

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