"Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts."

-- Roger Fouts

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction”
“Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage”
“I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.”
“We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith, the more I will have the opportunity of seeing Godâ€™s help and deliverance. Every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will increase my faith. The believer should not shrink from situations, positions, or circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but he should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities to see the hand of God stretched out in help and deliverance. Thus his faith will be strengthened.”
“Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.”
“There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (1991). “Outlander”, New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada
“When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!”
“Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.”

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