"We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

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Source : Julia Ward Howe (1871). “Proceedings of a peace meeting held at Union league hall, New York, December 23rd, 1870, for the purpose of free consultation on the subject of a woman's peace congress for the world, as proposed by ... Julia Ward Howe”, p.30

Julia Ward Howe

#Country Quotes #Son Quotes

“If you want me to come and caddie for you full time, you've got to sit down and do some hard work and do some hard yards because that's what I expect.”

Source : Source: www.golfdigest.com
“After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.”
“That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.”

Source : Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.67, Paulist Press
“There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.”
“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”
“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.”

Source : Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media
“The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.”
“Im sick of making bloody history.”

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