"The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you."

-- Merle Shain

#Love Quotes #Roots Quotes #Water Quotes

“Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1989). “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, p.115, Cambridge University Press
“Today was a reality check. Yesterday's rally was over-exuberant.”
“Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.”

Source : Gwen Cooper, Evelyn Haas (1989). “Wade a little deeper, dear: a woman's guide to fly fishing”, Lyons Press
“Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.”

Source : Mitch Daniels' keynote speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee at Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.americanrhetoric.com. February 11, 2011.
“Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.”

Source : Pam Farrel (2015). “7 Simple Skills for Every Woman: Success in Keeping Everything Together”, p.175, Harvest House Publishers
“A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.”
“And it's a question of who the parliamentary party thinks is the right person to lead - not just in terms of the negotiations but also the wider 'one nation' agenda that we set out in our manifesto last year and that we were elected on.”
“Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this womanâ€™s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what youâ€™d been before.”

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