"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."

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Margaret Halsey

#Funny Quotes #Dog Quotes #Fall Quotes

“I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.”
“To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.”
“Who said I was wise? Iâ€™m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.”
“A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.”
“True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.”
“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.”

Source : "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 26, 1843.
“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”
“One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.”

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