"One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

Peg Bracken

#Piano Quotes #Church Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Based on every statement Iâ€™ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.”
“God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.”
“I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.”

Source : "Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. March 23, 2005.
“I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.”
“Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.”
“To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.”
“Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.”
“"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.”

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