Wayne Winterrowd Quotes

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

Wayne Winterrowd

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• Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

  

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• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  

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• Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

  

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• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

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• It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

  

  Wayne Winterrowd
  • Children
  • Happens
  • Given