"Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Phones Quotes

“Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.”
“Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?”
“Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.”
“The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.”
“To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.”
“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”
“No one is perfect. Even the most confident people have insecurities. At some point in of our lives, we may feel we lack something. That is reality. We must try to live as per our capability.”

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