"I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother."

-- Denis Johnson

#Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. Its an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.”
“My bedroom's like an armoury.”

Source : "First Image from Steven Spielberg’s WAR HORSE" by Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 11, 2011.
“You can't take it with you! Whatever you have there you will have already sent ahead in the way of souls won, victories won, battles won and rewards won for your service here!”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

Source : Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications
“I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.”
“I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.”
“When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.”

Source : Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.
“In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.”

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