"Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children."

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Helen Foster Snow

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.”
“Kira: â€œWhy did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Orâ€¦No matter what shape he was in or how crazy it wasâ€¦maybe he wanted to live on forever in Reiâ€¦”
“It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”
“The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.”
“I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.”
“These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.”

Source : Sherley Anne Williams (1975). “The Peacock Poems”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press
“Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.”
“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”

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