Elizabeth Cook-Lynn quotes

“The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.”
-- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (2012). “From the River's Edge”, p.16, Living Justice Press

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.”
-- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

#Dream Quotes #Memories Quotes #Journey Quotes

“Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.”
-- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

#Prayer Quotes #Rome Quotes #Law Quotes

“Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.”

“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”

“The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...”

“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

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.”

“I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.”

“It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that God himself, he who is the highest of all, chose to be addressed simply as “Father.””

“My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.