"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."

-- June Jordan

#Children Quotes #Motherhood Quotes #Names Quotes

“My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.”
“You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.”
“Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.”
“But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that”
“Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood,”
“But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.”

Source : "How 'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps 12-year marriage interesting". www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.
“I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.”
“But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.”

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