"Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?"

-- Ira Reiss

#Strong Quotes #Children Quotes #Biblical Quotes

“Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.”
“I don't want to be in 'Terminator'. I don't want to go to Hollywood.”
“Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?”
“On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.”
“It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.”
“The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.”
“To conform is to lose your soul”

Source : Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.202, Hachette UK
“If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”

Source : Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (1906). “Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry”

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