"Remember this when you are queen,â€ he whispered hoarsely. â€œI moved the earth and the water for you."

--

Catherynne M. Valente

#Queens Quotes #Water Quotes #Earth Quotes

“This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.”
“Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers
“Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I donâ€™t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.”
“[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality”
“Why is the 'average man' so far below average?”
“Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”
“I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.”
“I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.”

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