"It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow."

-- Jean Chretien

#Mother Quotes #Boys Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.”
“Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.”
“Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.”

Source : "FDA orders elimination of trans fats within next three years". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. June 16, 2015.
“Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.”

Source : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.88, Heinemann
“I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia Oâ€™Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast Oâ€™Keeffe â€˜Sky Above Cloudsâ€™ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.”
“Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.”
“I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.”
“Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.”

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