"Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!"

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Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.12

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Death Quotes #Mother Quotes #Blessed Quotes

“The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2014). “The Firebird”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
“Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.”
“I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.”
“Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.”
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.”
“I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won't feel they're human anymore, to be proved wrong because that's the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.”
“Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?”
“There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.”

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