Musafir Cafe Quotes

#1. I can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It's gotta hurt having 'em crushed in something that tight.

Mark A. Cooper

#2. A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

Alice Meynell

#3. I know they're not actually talking but the books on my desk seem to whisper "Drop what you're doing! Set aside your poetry! Open us, read us! Read slowly while you're at it. Always read us - every day - before you play.

Ed Sanders

#4. The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Kathleen Winsor

#5. I've never been to a race car race before.

Christina Ricci

#6. I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.

Yvette Cooper

#7. We come to a house and walk down the small walkway to its backyard. In the yard there are two screens and a slide projector. People are seated in lawn chairs, watching slides of trees.

Audrey Niffenegger

#8. The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.

Adi Shankara

#9. In all the hurly-burly, I'd forgotten, but now I remember: The most important thing of all is that everyone's alive at the end of the day.

Theresa Brown

#10. I think sadness/grief turns off a certain part of your brain... maybe out of necessity... maybe for survival.

Sean Patrick Flanery