"You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state."

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Lemn Sissay

#Strong Quotes #Children Quotes #Motivation Quotes

“Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.”
“Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.”
“Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?”
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.”
“Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.”
“I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.137, Penguin
“I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.”
“It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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