quotes about Family Photo

“The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.”

“In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.”

“Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

“No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.”

Source : Roy Wood Sellars (1922). “Evolutionary naturalism”

“Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.”

“I have written some stories about weakness. I believe that punishment for a weak man is doubled. So when I feel upset, I always try to fool myself and say to myself, I have to be patient because I have a goal to reach.”

“Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.”

“As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.”

“As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.”

“May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA