"When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at them. They would say something that they thought was serious and intense and I would laugh. I thought it was funny, but they don't want to be laughed at."

-- Micah Perks

#Mom Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes

“America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants.”
“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your lifeâ€™s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”
“The world is more outlandish than some peopleâ€™s imaginations.”

Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.6, A&C Black
“To change masters is not to be free.”
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
“Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.”
“The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.”

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