"Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S."

-- David Rockefeller

#Mother Quotes #Europe Quotes #World Quotes

“The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in dimension and in number of component units. [Stating his conviction on the nature of nebulae during the Shapley-Curtis debate on 26 Apr 1920 to the National Academy of Sciences.]”
“Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama...or something.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lorelai Gilmore". "Gilmore Girls/ Application Anxiety", October 2002.
“I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.”
“What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.”
“The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat frequently, in the range of 100 to 200 times, though, regrettably, not in a thematic or notably profound or even interesting way. Others, like Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, cited them rarely.”
“I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.(Sir Edmund Orme)”
“The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.”
“From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties.”

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