"there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking."

-- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#Parent Quotes #Asking Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.”
“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.”
“Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.”
“Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.44, Macmillan
“The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.”
“Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each other but included each other, and went together in friendship; that it was approached in different ways and through many symbols; that it resided in the hearts of its devotees. Here there were no chosen people, no exclusive prophethoods, no privileged churches and fraternities and ummas. The message was subversive of all religions based on exclusive claims.”

Source : Ram Swarup (1992). “Hindu View of Christianity and Islam”
“I've been the oldest child since before you were born”

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