"My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see."

-- Gunter Grass

#Mother Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Thumbs Quotes

“I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and armchair approaches. Some ways of forming beliefs are better than others, and epistemologists of all stripes, I believe, have a legitimate interest in addressing the issue of what makes some of these ways better than others.”
“I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.”
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press
“Man is ***** religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.”
“Rapping is the only time I'm serious.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Earl Sweatshirt, on Being a Teenage Rap Prodigy Back From Exile" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2013.
“Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.”

Source : Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR
“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”
“If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I can live for 3,000,000,000.”

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