"But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Roots Quotes #Important Quotes #Trying Quotes

“My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.”
“It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'”
“My children deserve to have the best, and now they will”
“Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
“Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.”
“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct
“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”
“Christians are guilty of the notion that there was a time when people were required to live by the mosaic law, I just don't know that ever was the case.”

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