"I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind."

-- Alicia Ostriker

#Summer Quotes #Dog Quotes #Strong Quotes

“Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.”

Source : Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”
“Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.”
“They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.”
“There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically..”
“Every human being is a designer”

Source : Norman Potter (1969). “What is a designer: education and practice: a guide for students and teachers”
“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130
“The soul shares not the body's test.”
“Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.”

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