"It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]"

-- Homer

#Wise Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?”

Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.227, Hachette UK
“Truth is truth howe'er it strike.”
“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.”
“The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.”
“The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.”

Source : "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.
“I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!”
“I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.”
“Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.”

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