"I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble."

-- Louis C. K.

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #School Quotes

“Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.”
“Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones, reducing their animal product profits.”
“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”
“The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.”
“If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.”
“I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.”
“History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.”
“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

Source : "George Foreman Has Wisdom, Faith Lessons To Share". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 6, 2010.

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