"My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment."

-- Lisa Unger

#Baseball Quotes #Uncles Quotes #Stars Quotes

“I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.”

Source : "Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Child Stars, Contributed to Demise of Corey Haim" by Steven Baker and David Wright, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.
“Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.”
“Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.”
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.”
“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.”
“My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.”

Source : "The Vegan Sourcebook". Book by Joanne Stepaniak (p. 40), 1998.

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