"The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed."

-- Lin Yutang

#Son Quotes #Needs Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
“...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.”

Source : Robert Fuller Murray, Andrew Lang (1894). “Robert F. Murray: His Poems”
“Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark on. Always on tiptoe, anticipating discovery. Such people find change as necessary as the air they breathe.”
“When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.”
“When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.”
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
“It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.”
“A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.”

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