"It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six."

-- John W. Gardner

#Children Quotes #Age Quotes #Six Quotes

“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.”

Source : Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.14
“I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.”
“My mom always tells me that... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.”
“Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.”
“I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. Thatâ€™s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I donâ€™t want to escape it in any way.”
“For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.”
“To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life”

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