"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

-- Ethel Waters

#Mom Quotes #Husband Quotes #Hard Life Quotes

“There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.”
“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
“The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.”
“Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”
“We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.”
“I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.”
“My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.”

Source : Craig E. Adcock, James Turrell (1990). “James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space”, p.205, Univ of California Press
“One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.”

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