"Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism..."

-- Kathleen Parker

#Christian Quotes #Baby Quotes #Religious Quotes

“Some people leave, yeah, and it sucks. But some people don't leave, and they never will. And sometimes people are there, but you just can't see them. But they're still there.”

Source : Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.177, Penguin
“Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.”
“It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.”
“We as a country have to do some soul-searching.”
“Sometimes itâ€™s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.”
“I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.22, The Creative Company
“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”
“and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “Dreaming of Amelia”, p.578, Pan Macmillan

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