"She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die."

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Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.134, Penguin

Melissa Bank

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Said Quotes

“I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.”
“At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic.”
“Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.”
“Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.”
“Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.”
“The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.”
“The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.”
“Persecution matures young rebels.”

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