"Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother."

-- Ken Dodd

#Family Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.”
“God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.”
“Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.”
“Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.”
“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.”
“Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.”
“Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.”
“To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective”

Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.105, A&C Black

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