"I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open."

-- Cathy Rigby

#Hurt Quotes #Parent Quotes #Legs Quotes

“Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.”
“Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.”
“I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.”
“If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.337
“Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.”
“For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.”
“I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.98, Anchor
“Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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