"My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Mother Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Fake Quotes

“If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .”

Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book by James L. Harmon, 2007.
“In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.”
“The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.”
“The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.”
“I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.”
“I want to make sure all Minnesotans have the opportunity to experience prosperity.”
“There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.”

Source : D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.379, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

Source : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.285, Bantam

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