"We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still."

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Source : Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.34, Ballantine Books

Marlena De Blasi

#Children Quotes #Green Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
“This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much poorer than they think most of us are, look enviously over those borders and would like, if they could, to come here.”
“Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.”
“I couldn't find any meaning for my life when I was out there, I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here. This is the grand finale of a life poorly spent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing... it's just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that's all it is. How it can help anyone, I've no idea.”
“No one really expects me to do anything offensively. But I expect a little more.”
“Make haste cautiously.”
“As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.”

Source : "How to... fold things" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.
“I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.”

Source : "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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