"The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room."

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Fredrika Bremer

#Heart Quotes #Angel Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.”
“Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.”
“To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to be occurring so rapidly that the shift is no longer a simple extension of long-term trends. We have passed a genuine watershed: this is the first time in our history that the typical school-age child has a mother who works outside the home.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand
“What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.”
“A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.”
“Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.”
“I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.”
“A view of heaven from a seat in hell.”

Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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