"a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral."

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Barbara Holland

#Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Father Quotes

“Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl”
“Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
“I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.”
“Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.”
“The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim of our own success. We have an incredibly successful theory called the Standard Model. And it really explains everything that we can observe about and in terms of a very small number of elementary particles and some basic forces between them. And it's a quite beautiful theory and it really is just absurdly successful.”
“We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.”
“But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.”
“I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.”

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