"Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble."

-- Jean Charest

#Family Quotes #Fall Quotes #Roots Quotes

“So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.”
“A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.”
“You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.
“Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.”
“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”
“Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.”
“The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.”
“No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.”

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