“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” ― John Lennon
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Quotation Monday #75: First week of August
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn,… Continue reading Quotation Monday #75: First week of August
Quotation Monday #74: Books and summertime
“Come with me,’ Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.” ― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
Quotation Monday #73: Summer
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotation Monday #72: Summer afternoon
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James
Quotation Monday #71: Sunshine
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Quotation Monday #70: The Mind
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ― Plutarch
Quotation Monday #69: Education
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ― Jane Austen
Quotation Monday #68: Educators
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ― C.S. Lewis