"I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Years Quotes

“You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.”
“I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.”
“I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.”
“I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.”
“The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.”
“Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.”
“My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.”

Source : "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”

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