"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

--

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Hope Quotes

“I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.”
“Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you dont have mixed use, you dont have cities.”

Source : "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.
“You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.”
“Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from May 10, 2016
“Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.”
“The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing, Fukuyama argued, "...:;the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.":;... The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring. (P. 31”
“I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.”
“Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.”

Source : Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge

You may also like:

Harold Laski
Economist
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
James Russell Lowell
Poet
James Thomas Fields
Publisher
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poet
Joseph Lister
Surgeon
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
William C. Bryant
Poet