#par

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

#endow #experience #immortality #lend #memory

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#bill #bipartisan #congress #conservation #effort

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#fascinated #gardens #gateway #got #i

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax. ↗

— Otto Schily

#common #particularly #points #tax

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#asks #continue #guided #i #kennedy

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#live #part #repression #some #under

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#bill #budget #contributions #hyde #main

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#american #american children #children #father #little