"No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly."

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Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Men Quotes #Land Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
“It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.”
“I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.”
“The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.”
“The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!”
“Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.”
“Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.”

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