"When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?"

-- T. H. White

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.”
“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.”

Source : Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.
“Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.”
“The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.”

Source : "Fly-fishing the High Country". Book by John Gierach, 1984.
“I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.”
“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”
“think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?”
“How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.”

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