"If you've got a desire to achieve something, then keep going until you achieve it. It's not always possible and things might change - circumstances may change or adversity or obstacles may come your way - but keep trying. I feel that I've tried to do that in my life and it's something that I've tried to pass on to my children as well."

-- Victoria Derbyshire

#Children Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Desire Quotes

“One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.”
“Each couple is its own vaudeville act.”
“I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.”
“Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.”
“When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.”
“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone (1865). “The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books”, p.2
“Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if you treat yourself with contempt, you're going to have little thought, care or compassion for anyone else.”
“Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.”

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