"As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later."

-- Reynolds Price

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I am willing to see things differently. I am willing to see love.”
“I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.”
“I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.”
“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will effect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything”
“Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.”
“If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.”

Source : Song: Dear Landlord, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967
“Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.”

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