"I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community."

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Source : Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

Ernest Gaines

#Brother Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.”
“I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.”
“There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The cafÃ© and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.”
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Source : New York Times, January 8, 1981.
“I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and PlatoÃs heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.”
“I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.”

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