"We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments."

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Source : Speech, Birmingham, England, 18 Jan. 1865

John Bright

#Country Quotes #Mother Quotes #Years Quotes

“I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?”

Source : Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.80, Penguin
“There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.”
“As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.”
“Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.”

Source : Song: Through Your Hands
“In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.”
“I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile,”
“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.”
“I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.”

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