"All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land."

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Deborah Harkness

#Children Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Land Quotes

“I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.”

Source : Jerome Rothenberg, Diane Rothenberg (2016). “Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics”, p.484, Univ of California Press
“Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.”
“War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.”
“The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.”
“The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.”
“Over the years, CÃ©line Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.”
“I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.”
“History provides no precise guidelines.”

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