"My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school."

-- Tom Rooney

#Uncles Quotes #War Quotes #School Quotes

“Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.”

Source : Jackson Pearce (2013). “Cold Spell”, p.153, Hachette UK
“The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind aÂ great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?”
“Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!”
“I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.”
“Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.”
“People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.”
“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.”
“I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.”

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