"How different South Africaâ€™s cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lordâ€™s sunshine."

-- Richard Lloyd

#Country Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.”
“Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.”
“If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.”
“You talk about the [armed] service teaches you how to depend on each other, the service makes you aware of the common good and strips that down. Guys who go into service get to have that. But that's a high price to pay in this day and time with going into service.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.”

Source : Helen Bosanquet, Bernard Bosanquet (1996). “Helen and Bernard Bosanquet: Works on economics & social welfare: the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare”
“Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.”
“Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.”
“When I fart my ***** makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.”

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