"My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Mother Quotes #Memories Quotes #Children Quotes

“The present has its Ã©lan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.”
“If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.”
“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”

Source : Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”
“As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.”
“The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.”
“Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.”
“Some of the qualities of #â€Ž God must be merged into us before our #â€Ž prayers can be fit for His acceptance.”
“My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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