"God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above."

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Irving Berlin

#Night Quotes #Light Quotes #Land Quotes

“But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.”
“You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.”
“Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?”
“I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.”
“Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.”
“I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.87, Dell
“I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.”
“The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.”

Source : The Re-conquest of Ireland (1915)

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