"If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart."

-- Irving Pichel

#Family Quotes #Mother Quotes #Father Quotes

“Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.”

Source : André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.”
“One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.”
“Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'”

Source : Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.14, Vintage
“My friends come from many species.”
“You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.”
“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”
“A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.”

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