"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Children Quotes #Parenting Quotes #Age Quotes

“To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.”
“In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.”
“Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.”
“I am not Pele or Maradona”
“From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.”
“Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched.”
“Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.”
“If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.”

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