"But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them."

-- Penelope Lively

#Children Quotes #Giving Quotes #Design Quotes

“Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.”

Source : "Braggarts Take Over The Web". www.businessinsider.com. October 16, 2009.
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.”
“I like Michael Buble.”
“My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.”
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
“A fraudulent vote is a stolen vote. It steals a vote from the thin air and nullifies the legal and legitimate vote of a tax-paying citizen, whose rights to a fair election shouldnâ€™t be tampered with. Winning an election is important, but winning it honestly is imperative in a Constitutional Republic.”

Source : "Huckabee: Is asking for voter ID really 'too much'?" by Mike Huckabee, www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2012.
“For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?”

Source : Haniel Long (1968). “If he can make her so”
“We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.”

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