"My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used."

-- Marita Golden

#Mother Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.”
“For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.”
“Humility is something I've always prided myself on.”
“When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality... Take your energy out of what you donâ€™t want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing.”
“In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president's exact quote was: 'I ain't make none mistakes ever.'”
“The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.”

Source : I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.7, PublicAffairs
“Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.”
“Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.”

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