"My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity."

-- David Rubenstein

#Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

“In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.”
“My Father taught me how to be a man â€“ and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesnâ€™t take, he gives; he doesnâ€™t use force, he uses logic; doesnâ€™t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by whatâ€™s in his heart, not his pants.”
“Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.”
“The confirmation for both jobs - 'AMC' and 'Smallville' - came through on the same day, so there was a lot of wine flowing in the Hartley house that night!”
“Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.”
“Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.”
“I want a girl who will takes care at me whenever im sick,and right here with me everytime.”
“The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.”

Source : "Scourge of the new Spain" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2000.

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