From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES These issues are on the radar screen of baby boomers. They are concerned about life changes of their... CONSTANCE SWANK God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body. SRI SATHYA SAI BABA On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th... CALAMITY JANE My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO Some parents really have trouble having their kids know their business. The parents of Baby Boomers,... DENNIS MEANS His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emoti... FULTON J. SHEEN It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midw... J.P. DELANEY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i... GERMAINE GREER We'd like to combine our overall upbeat analysis of consumer spending and retail activity with our b... CHRISTINE CALLIES You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. KIN HUBBARD From the point of view of a spiritual life, it is not what you do that matters most, but the way in ... THE MOTHER I don't know if I have a favorite color. 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LARRY LONG I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by... CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never... RICK RIORDAN Take these broken wings and learn to fly. PAUL MCCARTNEY Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l... J.R.R. TOLKIEN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without l... LAUREN OLIVER Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded t... RICK RIORDAN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?” Percy wanted to step ... RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is... NEIL GAIMAN The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye... 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. 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TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri... J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It is very easy to say I MISS YOU, but very difficult to express how much I MISS YOU……….. SARVESH MURTHI .D .D I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That... R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because... R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo... R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,... R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated.... R. KELLY