"I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?"

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Source : "'Where Do We Go Now?' Asks Nadine Labaki" by Nana Asfour, www.newyorker.com. March 25, 2012.

Nadine Labaki

#Mother Quotes #Son Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.”
“In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.”
“How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.”

Source : "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.
“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”

Source : Jude Deveraux (2012). “Wild Orchids”, p.90, Simon and Schuster
“We were born to run; we were born because we run.”
“But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.”
“We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity â€“ the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.”
“The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?”

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