"There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal."

-- Carolina Nairne

#Land Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Care Quotes

“We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.”
“Frostbite? I consider that a failure.”
“No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate,”

Source : "Leisha Hailey: It Was Just One Kiss on Southwest Flight" by Tim Nudd, people.com. September 28, 2011.
“I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.”
“First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.”
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”
“Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.”

Source : Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.
“There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence”

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