"Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books."

-- Charlotte Mason

#Running Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.”
“Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.”
“My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.”
“I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.”
“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”
“The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.”

Source : Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.
“Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis.”

Source : Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”
“Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.”

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