"I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters."

-- Amy Chua

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.”
“I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.”
“Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
“I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.”
“One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.”
“There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.”

Source : "Relativity" l. 1 (1923)
“Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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