"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."

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Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

Mercedes McCambridge

#Son Quotes #Gentle Quotes #Concern Quotes

“Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.”
“I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national lab, but by the character of our decisions. The Department of Energy serves the country as a Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security.”
“I love the edited version of it.”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
“But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.”
“There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made â€” everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.”
“Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.”

Source : "Fictional character: Huw Morgan". "How Green Was My Valley", www.imdb.com. 1941.

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