"My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange."

-- Carol Moseley Braun

#People Quotes #Parent Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion. I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs.”
“If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.”
“Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.”
“Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”

Source : Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.116, Univ of California Press
“I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?”
“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
“It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.”

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