"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."

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Bill Cosby

#Family Quotes #Children Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“Six booksâ€¦ my mother didnâ€™t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books â€“ that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.”
“Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.”

Source : Darren Main (2002). “Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic”, p.173, BookBaby
“Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.”

Source : "Tricia Helfer Interview DARK BLUE Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.
“How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.”

Source : John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”
“There is no thing to see: you simply need to see that.”
“True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.”
“In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.”
“Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you”

Source : Ring Lardner (2013). “Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings”, p.702, Library of America

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