"Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Land Quotes #Birth Quotes #Infant Quotes

“Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.”
“Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.”
“If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.”
“The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.”
“For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.”

Source : Alexander Balmain Bruce (1871). “The Training of the Twelve: Or, Passages Out of the Gospels, Exhibiting the Twelve Disciples of Jesus Under Discipline for the Apostleship,”, p.188
“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.”
“It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.”
“If you're going to hold on tight to your life, better make sure it's exactly the way you want it”

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