"I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness."

-- Tayeb Salih

#Mother Quotes #Water Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.”

Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.110, Princeton Architectural Press
“The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life. Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.”
“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
“I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.”
“In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.”
“I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.”
“I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.”
“We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.”

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