Second World War Chidhood Quotes

#1. Good listeners always hear something novel

Ela Crain

#2. At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine steam pipes. This was the only drinking water that we had access to, and though it was hot and very rusty, it was the best drink I felt I'd ever had.

Alfred Nestor

#3. We stand, gazing at each other, until Ivy moves again, pulling me into another super hug. But this time as my arms touch her waist, it somehow feels softer than before. I wish I could hold on forever.

Colleen Boyd

#4. The letting of blood, for him, like the letting of semen.

Benjamin Percy

#5. To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of the supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

James C. Scott

#7. You can't explain your life: you have to reveal it.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.

T. B. Joshua

#9. The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

Wangari Maathai

#10. Dharma simply means the right thing in the right place, in the right space.

Frederick Lenz

#11. To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#12. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.

Alfred Nestor

#13. It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

John O'Keefe

#14. Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson