"Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For youâ€™ll never miss a motherâ€™s love Till sheâ€™s buried beneath the clay."

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Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Frank McCourt

#Mother Quotes #Missing Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.”
“Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a contagious effect on people. When we walk into the environment, we know immediately whether or not the energy is present. Most of us need communities as sources of motivation and vitality; and in keeping with the basic movements of energy in nature, people charge one another in positive and negative ways.”
“When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.”
“Democracy without morality is impossible.”

Source : "From Contagion To Outbreak: The Death Of Leadership" by Alicia Bassuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2016.
“Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.”
“Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.”
“The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isnâ€™t your gender, itâ€™s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.”
“I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.”

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