"Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach."

-- Mother Angelica

#Air Quotes #Feet Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.”
“Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.”
“Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.”
“A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.”
“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcÃ©e. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.”

Source : "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.
“So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.”
“A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.”
“Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.”

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