"Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway."

-- B. B. King

#Growing Up Quotes #Men Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.”
“Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”

Source : "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.
“Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
“He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.”
“I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!”
“I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.”
“I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2012). “The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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