"What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?"

-- Sophocles

#Father Quotes #Son Quotes #Ornaments Quotes

“Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.”

Source : Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Meljean Brook, Sharon Shinn (2011). “Angels of Darkness”, p.46, Penguin
“I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.”
“Part of why I wanted to produce was because I wanted the opportunity to work on projects I want to see. As a writer and as a director, I'm very specific about the kinds of things that I want to do. The opportunity that producing has given me is that by working with different writers and trying to get their movies made, or developing their script, or making their movies, every time I'm doing it, I'm learning and then bringing something to my own work. I like to think that there's a little bit of back and forth that goes on.”
“Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.”

Source : 1948 The Kon- Tiki Expedition: By Raft across the South Seas (translated by F H Lyon).
“For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.”
“As a customer service representative; it is hard to deal with people who has an attitude when I pick up the phone.”
“Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.”

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