"I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That was because Mrs. Moscrop wrapped a bar of yellow soap in with the washing. There wasn't anyone else who thought of a thing like that."

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Source : Howard Spring (2016). “My Son, My Son”, p.11, Head of Zeus

Howard Spring

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #Yellow Quotes

“Any form of art is a form of power.”
“It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.”

Source : Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage
“The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.”
“For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.”
“Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that pains are C-fibres, then I ought no longer to have any room for the thought that 'they' might come apart. His argument is that, since pains aren't identified via some contingent description, but in terms of how they feel, I have no good way of constructing a possible world, so to speak, where C-fibres are present yet pains absent.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.”
“From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.”
“I donâ€™t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.”

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