"My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Mother Quotes #Religious Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)”

Source : Heather Gudenkauf (2013). “The Weight of Silence: A Novel of Suspense”, p.217, Harlequin
“Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.”
“I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision”
“The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at the Christian Coalition Dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.keyesarchives.com. February 6, 1999.
“There's some idea there, and the power of it comes from the fact that most of the time you'll never be able to answer what it is. It's just there. It's just a magic moment that you can feel in your gut that it's there, and you're willing to go there and sleep there and go through the hardship and fight for it. Once you start answering it too clearly then the magic is gone.”
“I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me”
“I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.”
“Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.”

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