"Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper."

-- Colin Falconer

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Mother's Day Quotes

“Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.”
“Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.”
“The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are.”
“It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.”
“I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life”
“Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.”
“Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.”

Source : C. A. Bartol (1855). “Pictures of Europe, Framed in Ideas”, p.36
“You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.”

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