"Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace!"

“IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

“Jesus never consults your past to determine your present.”

“It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.”

“Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”

Source : "The Bone Garden of Desire" by Charles Bowden, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.”

“Sharia has a ruling system, an economic system, a policy and social system, a foreign policy and judiciary system to be implemented, you know, the whole package. Under the Sharia, food, shelter and clothing will be provided for all citizens in addition to basic necessities like gas and water as well. But, it's not like communism or socialism in the respect that you can work for the luxuries.”

Source : Source: www.yahoo.com

“I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don't think everything is being homogenized. If anything, your food, your culture, and your ethnicity might become part of the globalized world, and thus absorbed by other countries.”

Source : "Talking to Nouriel Roubini". Janera.com, May 02, 2007.

“Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”