"Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom."

-- Frank Costello

#Nice Quotes #Kids Quotes #Yale Quotes

“I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend of a mother ... I don't want to spend that kind of time. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have time to raise a child.”
“Over the years Iâ€™ve worked with countless women who have inspired me with their stories. Beyond makeup, weâ€™ve talked about life-altering events. Everything from the joy of being a new mom to dealing with homelessness and divorce. With each conversation, these women have shown that when you have the will and the heart, almost anything is possibleâ€”and thatâ€™s what Pretty Powerful is all about.”
“I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life, The day You became my Friend, I have not slept - And even if You drive me from your door, I swear again that we will never be separated - Because You are alive in my heart”
“This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.”
“I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.”

Source : "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.
“All love is lost but upon God alone.”

Source : 'The Merle and the Nightingale' st. 2
“Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.”
“I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.”

Source : Jane Auer Bowles, Millicent Dillon (1985). “Out in the world: selected letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970”, Black Sparrow Pr

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