"I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing."

-- Mavis Staples

#Mother Quotes #Grandma Quotes #Home Quotes

“We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.”

Source : Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.256
“Asia, in cooperation with Europe, is about to take simultaneous action towards realization of a New World Order.”

Source : "The Secret History of the War". Book by Waverley Root, p. 342, 1945.
“Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.”
“It's been very quiet, quite frankly. Nothing good, nothing bad.”
“It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.”
“I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.”
“The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.”
“I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.”

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