"I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun."

-- Franny Armstrong

#Mother Quotes #Stars Quotes #Fun Quotes

“Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.”
“What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.”
“Eyesight should learn from reason.”
“Being crazy about someone isn't nice or passionate or deeply moving; it is, surprisingly enough, crazy.”
“Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.”
“Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.”
“It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”
“The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.”

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