"So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Mother Quotes #Song Quotes #Teacher Quotes

“I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.”
“What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.”
“One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
“Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.”
“Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.”
“There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.”
“As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.”

Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.
“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”

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