"Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879."

-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Children Quotes

“No one should be surprised just because somebody isn't successful 100 percent of the time.”
“It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.”
“The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.”
“Books are like my one and only joy.”
“People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.”
“Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.”
“[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.”
“When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.”

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