"I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters."

-- Joaquin Phoenix

#Brother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Sibling Quotes

“I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.”
“Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.”
“No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.”
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
“It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.”

Source : "Zoe Saldana On Why She Quit Ballet As A Teen: ‘I Was Dying Inside’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2012.
“When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?”
“Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.”
“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”

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