"Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . ."

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Source : Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin (1999). “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made”, Three Rivers Press

Vincent Canby

#Maturity Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.”
“Let his herald your end,and begone with the thundder clap.”
“I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.”

Source : "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.
“When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.”
“My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all. If I could be half the dad he was, to my children, then that will be an achievement in itself. He died 14 months exactly to the start of the 2012 Olympics. I hope he will be watching and waving his big union jack in London from somewhere else. I love you so much dad.”

Source : "Tom Daley devasted after his father Rob loses his battle with cancer aged just 40" by Susie Boniface, www.mirror.co.uk. May 29, 2011.
“God help the patient.”
“By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.”
“When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.”

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.126, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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