"Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting."

-- John Hume

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Children Quotes

“The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
“Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”
“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.”

Source : Herb Caen, Irene Mecchi (1992). “Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991”, Chronicle Books Llc
“Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.”
“everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.116, New Directions Publishing
“World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.”

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