"My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family."

-- Alice Walker

#Parent Quotes #Culture Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.”
“Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.”
“I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.”
“In my work, there's mechanism that is "real," which is formed from the historical concepts of the images that I'm working with. That doesn't fall completely into a clichÃ©. There are elements about it that carry historical context and edges.”
“Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.”

Source : "God and the Atom". Book by Ronald Knox, pp. 53 - 54, 1945.
“It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.”
“Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.”

Source : "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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