"My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration."

-- John L. Phillips

#Dad Quotes #War Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.”
“It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.”
“We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.”
“But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”
“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”
“It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.”
“Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.”
“He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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