"Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development."

-- Lucille Roybal-Allard

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Home Quotes

“I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.”
“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”
“When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.”
“The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.”

Source : Michael Eric Dyson (1996). “Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture”, Oxford University Press, USA
“It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nancy Thayer from Feb 24, 2015
“As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.”
“Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.”
“Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.”

Source : "Les Problèmes de la Peinture". Interview with Gaston Diehl in Paris, 1945.

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