"Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friendsâ€”one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homesâ€”each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold."

-- Cathy Marie Buchanan

#New York Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Home Quotes

“I'd rather be loyal than right.”
“When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.”
“A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.”
“Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.”
“I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay: Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day.”

Source : Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.456, Cosimo, Inc.
“The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.”
“It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'.”

Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". ed. J & J, the Tate Gallery, London 1974, p. 31, 1957.

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