"The cradle of the future is the grave of the past."

-- Franz Grillparzer

#Future Quotes #Past Quotes #Cradle Quotes

“What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit in which we might take it, the spirit in which we might spend it, is the leaven that might leaven the whole lump. Let us be patriotic; let us love the government under which we live.”
“You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”
“It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe - and now Detroit - is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell, 'Stop.' You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it disappears over a cliff.”
“You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

Source : "The McQueen I knew was not a troubled genius" by Alex Bilmes, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
“Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.”
“Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.”

Source : Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.381, Simon and Schuster
“"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.”
“We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.”

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