"On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone."

-- Rocco Buttiglione

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we donâ€™t live in a democracy. Thatâ€™s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, heâ€™s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.”
“An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.”
“It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.”
“What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?”
“I believe that he's a boring fighter.”
“And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.”
“The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”
“There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.52, Beacon Press

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