"The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales."

-- Janet Flanner

#Mother Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Lambs Quotes

“To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.”
“Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”
“My daughter saw this billboard for this place: 'Swim With the Dolphins.' She goes, 'I wanna do that.' I said, 'It's a lot of money - forget about it.' She said, 'Dad, I always wanted to swim with the dolphins.' 'Always, or since you saw the sign?”
“Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.”

Source : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1958). “A Spiritual Aeneid”
“I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say, "I'm going to Europe."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.”
“To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.”
“I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.”

Source : "Tracee Ellis Ross: The 'Stylista' Speaking Up for Sisters". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. November 8, 2012.

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