Marvin Davis quotes

Marvin Davis quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.”
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”
“No one man is superior to the game.”
“Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.”
“No toys in the fish tank”

Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.555, Scholastic Inc.
“A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.”
“I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.”

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