"I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!""

-- Vivek Shraya

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Reading Quotes

“The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.”
“Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmosâ€¦provides opportunities for us to enjoy Godâ€™s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of Godâ€™s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changedâ€”but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.”
“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”

Source : John Marsden (2010). “Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles 3: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.182, Pan Australia
“I've stabbed two people with a fork today. What's wrong with me?”
“It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, January 10, 2002.
“The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.”

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