"I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have."

-- George J. Mitchell

#Children Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Parent Quotes

“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”
“It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.”

Source : George Arthur Buttrick (1942). “Prayer”
“All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen mÃ¼ssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]”
“I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins
“The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.”
“Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.”
“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
“I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors.”

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