"Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness."

-- Robert Harris

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Missing Quotes

“All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.”
“... too much brooding, not enough doing.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1999). “Pilgrim”, HarperFlamingo Canada
“All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling â€“ I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.”
“As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.”
“I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.”
“Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.”
“Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?”

Source : "Harry Belafonte in guns plea: 'Where is the raised voice of black America?'" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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