"I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived."

-- Samuel G. Freedman

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Best Things Quotes

“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”
“Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.”

Source : Chelsea Handler (2014). “My Horizontal Life”, p.29, Random House
“Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . . can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam....”
“I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.”

Source : "Snaps by Elliott Erwitt - review" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2013.
“Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.”
“Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.”
“All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.”
“I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to write pop songs for people. It never felt right writing songs for other people to sing, though.”

You may also like: