"We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents."

-- Sam Wineburg

#Kids Quotes #Past Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible.”
“The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.”
“How we survive, is what makes us who we are.”

Source : "Song: 'Survive'". 2006.
“Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.”

Source : Hall Caine (2016). “The Deemster”, p.5, The Floating Press
“I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.”
“Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the worldâ€™s ills... Yet many of the worldâ€™s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man”
“All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”

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