"The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . ."

-- Margaret Sanger

#Mother Quotes #Memories Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.”

Source : "Keating speech still powerful 25 years on". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 8, 2017.
“We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.”

Source : "From underwater, Maldives sends warning on climate change". edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2009.
“Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.”
“If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got.”
“Happiness needs one-upmanship.”
“Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.”
“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”

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