"When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their father."

-- Frank Abagnale

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.”
“History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.”
“I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.”
“The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.”

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan
“I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.”
“I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.”
“When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.”
“In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.”

Source : "The Bridges of Madison County". Book by Robert James Waller, 1992.

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