Childhood Sandbox Quotes & Sayings

That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another. — Gregory David Roberts

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. — Ben Macintyre

Dreaming is good - especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if you don't act on them. — Debasish Mridha

We'll all be failures?"
"Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you? — F Scott Fitzgerald

When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend. — Douglas Adams

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through. — Lauren Myracle

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity — Theodosius Dobzhansky

Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it — Mary Rowlandson

They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our personalities, so that each year, each month, each day, we transfer into a different person, an utterly unfaithful iteration of our original selves, of the drooling kid in the sandbox. But not me. I am still a facsimile of my early childhood. I am still looking for a loving dad to lift me up and brush the sand off my ass and to hear English, calm and hurtless, fall off his lips. — Gary Shteyngart

There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case. — Maynard Webb

Jasmine is logical in her thinking. One step leading to another. Analyzing probabilities and discarding them."
"You look surprised. Didn't you know that I was smart?" She pretends to be angry.
Even though I know she is teasing me, I feel my face get red-hot. How can I tell her that I knew but I didn't know
like seeing the sunset every evening but not seeing it. — Francisco X Stork

The important thing was that I was still on the radio. — Dick Biondi