"I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me."

-- Nancy Pelosi

#Country Quotes #Pride Quotes #Family Love Quotes

“We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.”
“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
“We’re not going to allow gay people to adopt children, that’s against nature, it’s against nature’s God.”
“Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.”
“I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.”

Source : Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
“As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.”

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