"Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth."

-- Elizabeth Goudge

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“My "degree" has done nothing for me at all. But that I've learned - the critical thought processes I've tried to keep sharp - these things were furthered along by college. I hated so much of my life "at university," but I also loved so much of it, and the things that I loved about it have kept me in a sort of "scholarly pursuit" to this day. Maybe it messed me up because I believe that there are things like truth and beauty, and that art and discussion can help us find them and enhance our lives.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.”
“[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.”
“Sometimes I find myself exploring very different and new fields but I have a very clear vision of what I would like to do and the questions I would like to raise.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Don't be afraid to dream of achieving the impossible.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 19, 2013
“It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to your face and then you know immediately he is an antagonist. Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.”
“I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.”

Source : "The passion project" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.
“I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.”

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