"I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be."

-- Jodi Picoult

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.”
“I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.”
“When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasnt good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.”
“Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.”
“I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.”
“If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should.”
“I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.”

Source : John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.14, Canongate Books
“In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.”

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