"It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people."

-- Orhan Pamuk

#Country Quotes #Heart Quotes #People Quotes

“The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.”
“... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.”
“Sometimes I feel like Iâ€™m actually on the wrong planet. Itâ€™s great when Iâ€™m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, â€˜What the hell am I doing here?”
“Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'”
“I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.”
“Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just has a command of the instrument, but can actually say something to make you feel something, make you think about something.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.”

Source : Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”
“The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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