"When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland. When I went to Sderot and saw the daily struggle to survive in the eyes of an eight-year-old boy who lost his leg to a Hamas rocket, and when I walked among the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, I was reminded of the existential fear of Israelis when a modern dictator seeks nuclear weapons and threatens to wipe Israel off the face of the map - face of the Earth."

-- Barack Obama

#Children Quotes #Wall Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.”

Source : Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “The Heart of a Dog - Illustrated”, p.111, Read Books Ltd
“Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.”
“Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
“I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.”
“The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature”

Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1922). “Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism”
“My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'”
“You can have anything in life, but you can't have everything!”

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