"We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography."

-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Brother Quotes #Father Quotes #Military Quotes

“The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.”
“I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.”

Source : "PAT SULLIVAN On Golf - LPGA Hall Needs Lower Standards" by Pat Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. July 01, 1995.
“The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.”
“Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."”
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.”
“If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written.”
“Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.”
“We can call it Isratine.”

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