"Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Kids Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.”
“He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.”
“Motherâ€™s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truthâ€™s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.”
“Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business...”
“To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”
“Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any one else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.”
“The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.”
“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”

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