"Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope."

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Source : Tami Hoag (2003). “Ashes to Ashes: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam

Tami Hoag

#Family Quotes #Mind Quotes #Bacteria Quotes

“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”
“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”
“God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.”
“Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!”

Source : Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation
“I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.”

Source : Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.
“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.”
“A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.”
“As you get older and as your situation changes, it becomes different. Yes, I have to provide for my family, so if there's a chance that I'm not going to be able to provide for my family, who is always number one, my kids are always number one, then yeah, maybe it's not the same. But like I said, everybody's boiling point is different and you get to that point differently and you're at peace with it.”

Source : "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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