"My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity."

-- Martin Schulz

#Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.”
“A Marine is never intimidated.”
“Capitalism is in crisis.”
“Men fall in love through their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears, through words.”
“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”

Source : Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Demon of the Flower”, p.5, eStar Books
“It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.”
“I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.”
“I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.”

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