"To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for"

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Source : Alexandra Ripley, Margaret Mitchell (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”

Alexandra Ripley

#Mother Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Blood Quotes

“The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.”
“Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.”
“A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.”

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“Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.”

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“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, Penguin
“People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.”
“Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction.”
“Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.”

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