"Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive."

-- Laura Moriarty

#Growing Up Quotes #Children Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.”
“It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it”

Source : "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.
“You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?”
“I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.”

Source : Natasha Trethewey (2012). “Thrall: Poems”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.”
“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”
“Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.”

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