#val

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#military #trophy #usefulness #value

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#adult #america #dealing #education #feel

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#convalescence #exercise #had #i #long

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#breaking #breaking up #came #cost #effectiveness

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#before #children #commitment #complex #constitution

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#man #meanings #nothing #other #principal

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#appreciate #freedom #i #life #many

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular