"Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success."

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.”
“You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.”
“She was by nature a sunny soul”

Source : Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.”
“Action and flexibility create opportunity”
“There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.”
“Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.”

Source : Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing
“We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.”

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