"I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood Iâ€™ve seen my mother and she hasnâ€™t asked, â€˜Why that shirt?â€™"

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Source : Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.201, Macmillan

Scott Simon

#Mother Quotes #Might Quotes #T Shirt Quotes

“There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.”
“With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules â€” we're all working harder and longer than we used to.”
“Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.”
“And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.”
“If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.”
“Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it.”
“Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “From My Writings and My Evenings: Essays on Thoughts and Truth”, p.4, Open Road Media
“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.”

Source : Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

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