"When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?"

-- Patricia Ireland

#Children Quotes #Men Quotes #Wife Quotes

“A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos”
“We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a scourge that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife. I said, let's solve this.”

Source : "Feathers Fly As Top Turkish Officials Square Off Over Twitter Ban". "The Two-Way", www.npr.org. March 21, 2014.
“It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.”

Source : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
“My responsibility is to truth and beauty.”

Source : "Connie Chung Tonight", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2002.
“There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.”
“We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31
“Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books
“This is going to be a long three minutes here.”

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