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Quote by LaVell Edwards

“Commenting on playoffs to determine a national champion: I'm not in favor of 15 games either. I think that's way too much football. The thing that I feel good about is that these guys hung together through 15 games and played hard every week. That's a marvelous tribute to the kids. We just hung in there today and kept playing. It's just been a special feeling all year long.”

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LaVell Edwards

LaVell Edwards was an American football coach born on October 11, 1930, and passed away on December 29, 2016. He is renowned in the football world for his unique tactics and leadership style. more

“By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.”

Years Firsts Wells Children Body Age Language Process Memories Effort Five Four Draws Gains Accounts Drawing Rely Five Years Abandon Graphic Scribbles Spoilt

Author:Karl Buhler

“Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.”

Men Giving Good Things Useless Folly Blindness

Author:Democritus

“Late children are early orphans.”

Children Late Orphan

Author:John Wilmot

“The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.”

Ifs Children Littles Made Cry Please Paper Weight Green Fruit Broke Branches Pale Crooked Tomatoes Fertility Frantic

Book:The witches of Eastwick

Source: The witches of Eastwick

“As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?”

Ifs Children Language Hours Delight Rings Native Shore Solace Pebbles Native Language

Book:The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes

Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes

“And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.”