"All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me."

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Source : "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

Bess Myerson

#Mother Quotes #Home Quotes #Men Quotes

“I wanted to make an album that I wanted to put on myself and could listen to again and again. In the past I've done these records that are very in-depth. I love them and I'm very proud of them but I've always found it hard to listen to them again and again...they're very demanding.”
“The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.”

Source : Karl Landsteiner (2013). “The Specificity of Serological Reactions”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.”
“But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.”
“Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.”
“North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.76, Vanderbilt University Press
“A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.”
“Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.”

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