"In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children."

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Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

Donna Shalala

#Children Quotes #Caring Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.”
“Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.”
“We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.”
“To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.”
“Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011
“With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.”
“I don't want the attention. I want the respect.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.”

Source : Roland Merullo (2009). “A Little Love Story: A Novel”, p.96, Vintage

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