"I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me," I said. "I want to be myself." "Don't be a child." I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. "What?" "You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining."

-- N.K. Jemisin

#Children Quotes #Tired Quotes #Done Quotes

“A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.”
“The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil, there are rough and uneven roads, there are precipes; but there too is God and the angels, life is there, and the Kingdom, there too is light, and there the apostles and heavenly cities, and treasures of grace. All things lie within that little space.”
“America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.”
“She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.”
“My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.”

Source : Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press
“Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.”
“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.”
“My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.”

Source : Source: irusa.org

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