"My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person."

-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.”
“Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.”
“Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.”
“Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.”

Source : James P. Comer (1995). “School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project”
“The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)”
“There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.”
“Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?”
“Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.”

Source : Jane Seymour (1986). “Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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