"New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment."

-- Ernest Gruening

#New York Quotes #Children Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Climbing is what I do.”
“I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.”
“We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.”
“Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.”
“The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.”

Source : Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.157, Thomas Nelson Inc
“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.426, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.”
“Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.”

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