"To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Lilian Thuram

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“May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.”
“If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.”
“Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.”
“If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.”
“They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.”
“The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.”
“By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.”

Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.209, A&C Black
“A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.”

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