"Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Zero Quotes

“Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.”

Source : Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City Address, www.crainsdetroit.com. March 11, 2008.
“Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!”
“You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Cathedral”, p.148, Vintage
“I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.”
“The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.”

Source : William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.51
“Everyone has class, one class or another.”
“All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.”
“As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.”

Source : "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 292), 2004.

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