"I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth."

-- Mary Griffith

#Children Quotes #Self Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.”
“Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.”
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.”
“I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.”

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“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.”
“I don't think it is too good especially with music to worry about authenticity, it can get in the way of doing something which comes naturally from your own head which is the most authentic thing [of all].”
“Books, the children of the brain.”

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