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“You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.”

Ifs May Goal Perseverance Knees Score Worth It Spectacular Softball Elbows Skinned Knees

Author:Mia Hamm

“We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.”

“Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.”

Problem Pain Failure Painful Knees Superficial Success And Failure Success Failure Superficiality Skinned Knees

Author:Ross Perot

“Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.”

“But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.”

Thinking Firsts Said Strong Broken Arms Fine Like Me Knees Grandmother Scarlet Skinned Knees

Author:Marissa Meyer

“Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”

Mother Girl Family Motherhood Knees Insult Teenage Hearted Frogs Teenage Girl Faint Hearted Skinned Knees

Author:Danielle Steel

“If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.”

Ifs Want Play Faces Young Girl Energy Heaven Watches Bunch Knees Sweat Skinned Knees

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.”

Moments Hands Nature Perfect Sky Possibility Filled Dust Knees Mud Transcendent Nettles Skinned Knees

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder