"My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things."

-- Tommy Lee

#Being Yourself Quotes #Father Quotes #Philosophy Quotes

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.”
“What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.”
“Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.”
“A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.”
“Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot”
“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

Source : 1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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