Quotes
Authors
C. Sommerville
"Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?" --
C. Sommerville
#Children Quotes
#War Quotes
#Years Quotes
“Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.”
“you have the right to live a beautiful life”
“Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.”
“To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.”
“Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.”
“I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.”
“What’s with her?†says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,†Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not mad because I’m a woman,†I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.”
“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.”
