"In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Family Quotes #Children Quotes #Judging Quotes

“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.”
“If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking about abortion. We're not talking about population control. What I'm talking about is giving women the power to save their lives, to save their children's lives and to give their families the best possible future.”
“I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.
“I can only gesture at what makes a story good.”
“I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.”
“Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?”
“It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words,Â â€˜I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.â€™”

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