"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."

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Source : Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.254, Bantam

#Growing Up Quotes #Mean Quotes #Learning Quotes

“If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.”
“I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.”
“Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.”
“I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.”
“It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.”

Source : Cesare Beccaria (2016). “On Crimes and Punishments”, p.107, Transaction Publishers
“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.”
“The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.”

Source : John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint
“He who saves a single soul , saves the world entire”

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