"I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not."

-- Dani Shapiro

#Mother Quotes #Religious Quotes #Father Quotes

“When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.”
“I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.”
“A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.”
“I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'”
“I don't know what you can do if it's reported that there's been a small attack in the second- or third-largest city in country X that you have no connection to. I don't know what you're supposed to feel or how you're supposed to get into that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If you keep running away every time you are scared, then you will do nothing but hide your entire life. Is that really, how a person should live their life? The only way you can get over this fear is by fighting. No matter how scared or afraid you are, you cannot win without fighting.”
“I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.”

Source : Davy Crockett, Thomas Chilton (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee”, p.135
“Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.”

Source : Joan Lowery Nixon (2013). “In The Face of Danger”, p.34, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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