"If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience."

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Aimee Mullins

#Childhood Quotes #Watches Quotes #Film Quotes

“I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.170, Random House
“But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”

Source : William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”
“I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.”
“Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.”
“I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.”
“The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.”
“When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.”
“They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]”

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