"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."

-- Greta Scacchi

#Stay Strong Quotes #Years Quotes #Hiking Quotes

“There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.”
“What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.184, Broadway Books
“This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations”
“To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.”
“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.”
“There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.”
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”
“God is so big He can cover the whole world with His love, and so small He can curl up inside your heart.”

Source : June Masters Bacher (1979). “Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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