"Iâ€™d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henryâ€™s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didnâ€™t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didnâ€™t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist."

-- Robert Newton Peck

#Mother Quotes #Water Quotes #Swim Quotes

“There was less than Iâ€™d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled â€˜DEAD SPIDERS.â€™ As if I hadnâ€™t always known it was there. As if I wouldnâ€™t want to look at dead spiders.”
“I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.”
“With mindfulness, we can be with the experience in more immediate way. When we find ourselves flooded with an emotion that's come after the judgement, we've often missed the very judgment that triggered the emotion.”
“'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.”
“It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.”
“I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.”
“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”

Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”
“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.”

Source : "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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