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“Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.”

Children Play Opportunity Games Modern Youth Serious Neglect Leap Frogs Pastime Inner Child Modern Youth

Book:Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter

Source: Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter

“I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.”

“I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.”

Long Doe Hands Spirit Voice Water Sea Blessing Ocean Breaths Blue Wave Welcome Beach Over It Leap Broads Salt Margins Sunny Brows Homage Dip Greetings Extremity Long Beach

Book:Tales and sketches

Source: Tales and sketches

“The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.”

Light Darkness Clear Blind Leap Rooted Testament Grounded New Testament Leap Of Faith

Author:R. C. Sproul

“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”

May Law Brain Blood Cold Anger Hot Leap Temper Merchants Temperance Decree Merchant Of Venice Devising Means

Author:William Shakespeare

“I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.”

Believe I Can Faith My Own Existence Leap Leap Of Faith

Author:Woody Allen

“Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.”

Source: Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies

“Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence.”

Christ Dark Evidence Blind Leap Chasms Faith Based

Author:Hank Hanegraaff

“I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.”

People Thinking Dream Leap Old People

Author:Bif Naked

“A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.”

Gold Leap Thrones Frogs Puddles

Author:Publilius Syrus

“(Death is) A leap into the dark.”

Death Dark Leap

Author:Thomas Browne

“When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.”

Knows Book Helping Bigs Reality Magic Huge Reader Easier Asking Extras Leap Wizards Werewolf

Author:Patricia Briggs

“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”

Conviction Leap Quotations Robbers Strollers

Book:Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926

“The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.”

Light Fire Clouds Leap Trails Rockets Steam Pads

Book:To Space & Back

Source: To Space & Back

“As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.”

Long Self Natural Chance Planets Huge Walking Moon Species Vulnerable Leap Catastrophe Extinction Star Gazing

Author:David Grinspoon

“Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.”

Thinking Stills Whole Social Media Bounds Social Media Leap Leaps And Bounds

Author:Luke Bryan

“Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.”

Done Community Excited Courageous Leap Skydiving Courageous Women

Author:Anne Bancroft

“I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.”

Thinking Views Industry Instruments Point Of View Leap Quantum Commerce Bass Music Industry Quantum Leap

Author:Stanley Clarke

“Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.”

Needs Wells Whole Space Example Branches Leap Exquisite Measurement Precision Obsessive Decimals Calibration

Author:Jay Griffiths

“They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.”

Bounds Call Me Leap Tall Hoe

Author:Eminem

“I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.”

Thinking Trying Years Leap

Author:Patty Loveless

“The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.”

Mother Politics Waiting Streets Politician Leap Savior

Author:Bob Dylan

“I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.”

Play Character Age Girl Wonderful Leap Coming Of Age This Girl Whirlwind Brash Albatross

Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

“I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.”

Stills Able Stuff Acting Behinds Cameras Glad Leap Satisfying

Author:Paul Feig

“I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.”

Persons Issues Huge Couple Gay Jew Leap Nashville Interracial Couple

Author:Janis Ian

“What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.”

“When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.”

World Want Doe Use Fiction Depends Claims Appropriate Leap

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.”

People Ideas Party Comfortable Kicks Leap Hitting Chords Extroverts Small Talk Scissors

Author:Alex Kapranos

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