"The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them."

-- Ashley Montagu

#Quality Quotes #Bases Quotes #Humans Quotes

“The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.”
“I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.”
“Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.”
“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”
“You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.”
“Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1998). “Children of God: A Novel”, Villard Books
“Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.”
“I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.”

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