"My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am."

-- Andy Rooney

#Mother Quotes #Littles Quotes #Bones Quotes

“I'm afraid to do theater now.”
“Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.”
“Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.”
“No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.”
“The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.”

Source : Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”
“Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.”
“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.”
“And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?”

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