"I am thrilled to be 31, still running and having my daughter watch me even if it is on TV."

-- Evelyn Ashford

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Running Quotes

“People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.”
“I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.”

Source : "Jonny Wilkinson: not quite Mr Perfect" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.
“Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.”
“Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.”
“Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.”
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1984). “Violent silence: celebrating Georges Bataille”
“Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?”

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