"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."

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Source : Once Around the Sun (1951) 8 Feb.

Brooks Atkinson

#People Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Age Quotes

“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might, and the Republic is in danger. Yes - danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without it our nation cannot survive.”
“I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?”
“I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.”
“Because I always have a choice, I choose love.”
“Boston is the engine of the state's economy.”

Source : Thomas M. Menino (2014). “Mayor for a New America”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I dont really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.”
“To remain standing one often has to fall.”
“I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better personâ€Š - and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole. I wouldn't want them to know the me that didn't get to do this all day long. I wouldn't want them to know the me who wasn't doing.”

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