"My father loved people, children and pets."

-- Tony Visconti

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #People Quotes

“Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.”
“[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1750). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.363
“It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.”
“The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.”
“Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.”
“The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.”
“Loveâ€”the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incompleteâ€”is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.”
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”

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