"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."

-- Margaret Mead

#Country Quotes #Cities Quotes #Voice Quotes

“For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?”

Source : Clare B. Dunkle (2010). “The Sky Inside”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
“Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.”
“The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.”
“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”
“Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.”

Source : "Andrea Mitchell interviews Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke moments after speaking with President Obama". Interview with Andrea Mitchell, info.msnbc.com. March 2, 2012.
“... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.”
“Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.”
“Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.”

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