"How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers. She constantly demands to see her mother," said another, "and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her."

-- Frank Beddor

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Drug Quotes

“No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.”
“He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1844). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.21
“There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it....”

Source : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.”
“The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.”
“I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.”
“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.”
“Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.”

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