"I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering."

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Kids Quotes #Faces Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.”
“I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.”
“Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.”
“A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.”
“There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.”
“Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.”
“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.”
“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.”

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