"A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes."

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Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

Frank McCourt

#Mother Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.”
“In the New World, happiness is enforced.”

Source : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
“Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.”
“The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.47, Da Capo Press
“We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's in a cocoon. While I'm an improviser and enjoy discovery, the show follows a script. I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen. It's a very Âcrafted, controlled environment.”
“Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de vlakken en de kleuren en de verhoudingen van deze vlakken louter op toeval schenen te berusten, verklaarde ik dat deze werken, zoals in de natuur, gerangschikt waren "volgens de wetten van het toeval", toeval dat voor mij alleen maar een beperkt onderdeel vormde van een onpeilbare reden van bestaan, van een orde die in zijn totaliteit ontoegankelijk was.”
“The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship”

Source : "The Dregs of Dictatorship". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2012.
“There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.”

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