"Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people."

-- Rudy Wiebe

#People Quotes #Generations Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Everything starts with one person . . . I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.”

Source : "Mother Angelica Live", www.imdb.com. (1983-).
“The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.”
“The only thing they recognize is a buffet”
“Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.”

Source : Carolyn G. Heilbrun (2011). “The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”, p.213, Ballantine Books
“There are many people abroad who want to help, who want to invest. We will give them the red-carpet treatment. We want them to realize that this is a land of opportunity. It always has been so, but we never allowed foreign investment to come into this country.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Great performers welcome pressure.”
“I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.”
“Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.”

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