My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.
– Gerald Durrell
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- Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. – Gerald Durrell
- Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked. – Gerald Durrell
- Daily learning of your craft makes you master of your craft. – Seema Brain Openers
- We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We’re shaped by our choices. – Sarah Dalton
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
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- I am the Merlin, bane of the Vale, terror of the four lands. I am chaos and shadows, the last of my people. – Jennifer Silverwood
- It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare. – Rudyard Kipling
- Merlin’s pants! – JK Rowling
- [Merlin – on realizing the he’d killed a man with his m – FayJay
- The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. – David Viscott
- The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls. – Gerald G Jampolsky
- Forgiveness is the one gift you don’t give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free. – Shannon L Alder
- Don’t give a gift with expectation to get but if you have got a gift always try to give. – Debasish Mridha
- Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. – Donald L Hicks
- Don’t give a gift with the expectation to get,but if you have a gift, always try to give. – Debasish Mridha
- Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift. – Michael J Kannengieser
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- Art like life is an open secret. – Lawrence Durrell
- Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I’m desperately wishes… – Hira Shahid Kazim
- There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere. – Sadghuru
- Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young. – Julian Barnes
- Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
- Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
- A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. – Gerald R Ford
- I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- People think a relationship is give & take, but i see it as give & give, & there is no greater gift than the love & compassion within your heart. – Mark Hewer
- Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety? – Ursula K Le Guin
- I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Each of our five senses contains an art. – Lawrence Durrell
- I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. – Lawrence Durrell
- Music is only love looking for words. – Lawrence Durrell
- How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. – Lawrence Durrell
- Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? – Lawrence Durrell
- An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. – Lawrence Durrell