"Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people."

--

Susan Minot

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.”
“Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.”
“I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.”
“Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”
“You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.”
“Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.”
“My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.”
“...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.”

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