"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world"

-- Alice Duer Miller

#Mother Quotes #Wall Quotes #Children Quotes

“Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.”

Source : Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 8, 1980.
“Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.”
“Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”
“One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream....”
“The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.”
“If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.”

Source : John H. Lienhard (2003). “The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, p.35, Oxford University Press
“For someone so violent, he has a gentle face, doesn't he?”
“I take sounds and change them into words.”

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