"You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me."

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Source : Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

Strickland Gillilan

#Mother Quotes #Parenting Quotes #Jewels Quotes

“Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.”
“If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.”
“The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.”
“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
“If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.”

Source : Manchester Guardian Newspaper, 1939.
“You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.”

Source : Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books
“I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.”
“European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.”

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