"My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too."

-- Josh Earnest

#Mom Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.”
“Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.”
“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”
“The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.”

Source : "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.
“You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'”
“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.”
“I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”
“I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.”

Source : "Tank boy". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.

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