"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."

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Quentin Crisp

#Mother Quotes #Fathers Day Quotes #Dad Quotes

“A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.”
“Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.”
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”
“If you let go of me now,â€ I whispered, stretching against him, â€œit could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?”
“Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.”
“Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.”
“Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"”
“Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?”

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