Charan Singh/early Years

Famous quotes containing the words singh, early and/or years:

“A poor person’s youth, like moonlight in winter, is never appreciated.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)

“A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)