#rote

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#become #been #burdens #continue #entirely

I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#announced #confident #country #even #food

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#demand #made #many #read #reason

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#development #equal #equal right #equity #eternal

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#die #going #good #good thing #i

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide. ↗

— Charles King

#committing #gift #girl #her #i

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#any #lives #measures #protective #save

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#four #get #guys #hitters #i

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#approve #book #bride #burnt #done