"[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety."

-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#Mother Quotes #Pain Quotes #Home Quotes

“My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.”
“I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.”
“Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.”
“I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.”

Source : "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.”
“I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn't do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.”
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

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