"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."

-- Beverly Cleary

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #People Quotes

“There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.”
“When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.”
“True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential”
“Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!”
“Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity.Â Letâ€™s love each other.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Brown from Jun 23, 2013
“It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.”
“I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books
“On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.”

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