"For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes..."

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Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#Home Quotes #Fire Quotes #Shining Quotes

“As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 11, 2005.
“A bend in the road is not the end of the roadâ€¦Unless you fail to make the turn.”
“Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.”
“I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.”
“I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.”
“It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.”
“I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.”
“The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.”

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