"I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last."

-- Lucy Ellmann

#Mother Quotes #Generations Quotes #Alive Quotes

“The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.”
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!”
“I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.”
“Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.”
“We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out.”
“The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.”
“I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.”
“It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment”

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