"Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?"

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Peter De Vries

#Reason Quotes #Starting Quotes

“When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.”
“My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.”
“A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.”
“All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.”
“If we teach todayâ€™s students as we taught yesterdayâ€™s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
“I hurt my bladder rollerblading.”

Source : "Fictional character: Russell". "Bio-Dome", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“I'm a fighter. So if you're going to doubt me or say that I can't do something, I'm going to prove to you I can do it. And when I do it, hopefully I earn your respect and you'll know it didn't come easy to me.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
“There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.”

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