"There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years."

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Source : "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

Carol Vorderman

#Brother Quotes #Father Quotes #Years Quotes

“The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that a way!”
“Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.”
“Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.”
“The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.”
“To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.”
“Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.”

Source : Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began”, p.3, Random House
“A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.”
“What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.”

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