#chi

Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster... ↗

— Penelope Lively

#cathedrals #geology #architecture

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #enough #learned #once #rules

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #lives #other #parents #run

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery. ↗

— Antonin Carême

#cookery #food #architecture

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about! ↗

— Martha Quinn

#before #clueless #fuss #i #i see

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets. ↗

— Sun Ra

#experiences #had #i #other #outer

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#achieving #arab #consider #idea #long

Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#aid program #bring #children #covered #get

Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#cannot #china #class #develop #economy