"Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in."

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Source : Maureen Daly (1946). “Seventeenth summer”

Maureen Daly

#Growing Up Quotes #House Quotes #Sides Quotes

“The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.”
“I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.”
“There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89
“I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.”
“Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 28, 2014
“For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.”
“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”
“Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.”

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