"Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack."

-- William Finnegan

#Country Quotes #Father Quotes #Kids Quotes

“The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.”
“You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”
“It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!”
“Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.”
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”

Source : Cate Tiernan (2007). “Book of Shadows: Book One”, p.9, Penguin
“With my background, I came out of the theater.”
“My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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