"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."

-- Samuel Rutherford

#Summer Quotes #Children Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.”
“Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.”
“The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?"”
“The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.”

Source : Richard Holloway (2000). “Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out Of Ethics”, p.31, Canongate Books
“I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.”
“A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.”
“Are you Lewis Carroll?" Redd asked him.”
“According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.”

Source : "Contemporary Japan" by Nihon Gaiji Kyokai, (p. 422), 1932.

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