"Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated."

-- Phyllis McGinley

#Children Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Towers Quotes

“Worry is the warning light that shows Iâ€™ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.”
“It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.”
“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”

Source : Richard Yates (2013). “Cold Spring Harbor”, p.83, Bantam
“That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.”
“Plant trees, Lots of trees”
“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.”
“From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.”
“Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.”

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