“This little boy is five years old, and big trees he loved to climb! His special name is Terry”
― Tali Carmi, quote from Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg
“Who shall I give my gratitude?”
― Tali Carmi, quote from Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg
“For one little boy, this summer was going to be really exciting! He and his whole family were going out to do some camping! This little boy is five years old, and big trees he loved to climb!”
― Tali Carmi, quote from Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg
“Terry Treetop Finds New Friends Amazon.com ”
― Tali Carmi, quote from Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg
“Very sadly, Terry gave his thanks and walked to sit on a brown log. There”
― Tali Carmi, quote from Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from Midnight's Children
“No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life!”
― Art Spiegelman, quote from The Complete Maus
“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was...
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
― Jerry Spinelli, quote from Stargirl
“They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from The Martian Chronicles
“True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others,
the happier he is.
The more he gives to others,
the wealthier he is.”
― Lao Tzu, quote from Tao Te Ching
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