"Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land."

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Source : "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

Bruce Chatwin

#Mother Quotes #Country Quotes #Children Quotes

“I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.”

Source : "Journalist Robert MacNeil: 'Looking For My Country'". Interview With Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2003.
“The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”
“A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.”

Source : "User Interface Design For Programmers". Book by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. October 24, 2001.
“Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.”
“Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra. You will never go short, never will you have less. God will prevail by God's True Nature. If you have discomfort and hunger say, "God, that is Thy Virtue. Thank you for accepting me for that tragedy." This is the attitude of gratitude. "My shackles will be removed by Thy Will." God is so great, to Him the whole of what we have is just like a sesame seed.”
“I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.”
“Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.”
“Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.”

Source : Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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