"My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories."

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Myron Uhlberg

#Memories Quotes #Dad Quotes #Father Quotes

“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...”
“In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.”
“Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but itâ€™s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.”
“A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.”
“Work hard and find stories you want to tell from your heart. The great thing for women is that there are so many stories which haven't been told from our perspective and there is a huge audience just waiting to watch it.”
“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.184, Quirk Books
“Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.”

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