"My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why."

-- Fred Rogers

#Mother Quotes #Dog Quotes #Children Quotes

“I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
“If Europe thinks Jews will return to the days where we were forced to mark our products - you can forget it. De-legitimization of parts of Israel by Europe is the new anti-Semitism. The old anti-Semitism led to the destruction of our people in gas chambers. We will not allow the new anti-Semitism to hurt us,”
“Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation
“There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.”
“We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society.”
“Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.”
“This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.”

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