"Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing."

-- Jillian Michaels

#Home Quotes #Parent Quotes #Missing Quotes

“For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics
“When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.”
“Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.”
“Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (1981). “The Last Defender of Camelot”, Pocket
“We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.”
“Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.”
“A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.”

Source : "John Chamberlain, Who Wrested Rough Magic From Scrap Metal, Dies at 84" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 2011.
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press....”

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