"The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart ..."

-- Lucy Larcom

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.”
“There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.”

Source : "Rivlin to Carter: No Israeli Consensus on '2 States'". www.israelnationalnews.com. June 16, 2009.
“Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.”
“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”
“One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.”
“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”
“It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.”
“It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.”

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