"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Memories Quotes #Safety Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.”
“Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.”
“And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.”
“Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.”
“The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.”
“I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.”
“Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.”
“I have two little kids and I enjoy watching movies with them, and I can't watch every movie with them. Sometimes it's because it's obviously not appropriate to watch The Bourne Identity with your kids, but a lot of times it's because it's torture to watch the movies that they want to watch, as a parent.”

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