Virginia Linder quotes

“The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.”
-- Virginia Linder

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“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.”

“Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.”

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

“I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.”

“My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

“Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.”

“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14

“I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.”