"My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit."

-- Willie Morris

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“butterflies were wind energy made visible.”
“I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.”
“It was on Long John's show that I heard Orfeo Angelucci being interviewed. In other words, the whole thing about the green globes on the top of a car bumper and the voice coming out, you know, and then this beautiful lady.... So he went through the whole number, what you read in his book, that kind of stuff. A whole raft of things.”
“I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.”
“How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.”
“I don't shave when I'm not working.”
“The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.”
“Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.”

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