"I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes."

-- Anne Cassidy

#Children Quotes #Eye Quotes #Water Quotes

“I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.”
“It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.”
“You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.”
“No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.”

Source : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
“The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.”

Source : Raymond Aron (2001). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.257, Transaction Publishers
“Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.”
“I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.”

Source : "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.
“Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.”

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