"Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe."

-- Naomi Mitchison

#Father Quotes #Safety Quotes #Lap Quotes

“You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot”

Source : Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com
“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.”
“The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Brown, John Banks (1795). “British Theatre: Barbarossa”, p.72
“Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.”

Source : Song: Travelin' Man, Album: Beautiful Loser, 1975
“I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.”

Source : "From Degrassi High To Manhattan: Jake Epstein Dons The Spidey Suit". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. December 12, 2012.
“I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.”
“The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.”
“Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.”

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