"Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Children Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Failing Quotes

“I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.”
“I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think thatâ€™s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of â€˜the cool groupâ€™ so as a result they just mock it.”
“In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.”
“One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.”
“What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.”

Source : Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.151, Penguin
“The Congress is a power-oriented party.”
“I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.”
“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.”

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