"My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight."

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Source : "My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop" by Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

Vincent Nichols

#Parent Quotes #Crosses Quotes #Foreheads Quotes

“The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?”
“Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.”
“Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.”
“The harder you work when nobodyâ€™s watching the less you bleed when itâ€™s time to perform.”
“I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.”
“The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids - when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that's happening, the system just isn't working.”
“People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.”
“Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”

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