"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."

-- Chaim Potok

#Family Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.”
“I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.”
“The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.”
“I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'”
“There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.”
“Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!”
“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.”

Source : Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”
“Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.”

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