"No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back."

-- Jodi Picoult

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Love You Quotes

“I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.”
“I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.”
“I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.”
“They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they are working so hard that they don't even have the time to think about what they might actually desire.”
“Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.”
“If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.”
“All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.”
“I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar.”

Source : "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

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