"I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country."

-- Corrine Brown

#Country Quotes #Veteran Quotes

“Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.”
“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

Source : Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
“I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”
“Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.”

Source : 'Lalla Rookh' (1817) 'The Veiled Prophet' pt. 3, l. 356
“The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.”
“In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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