"Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer."

-- Ninian Smart

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.”
“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”
“I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.”
“David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .”
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
“If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it is stuff on SyFy or Discovery Channel or it's about ghost seekers.”
“I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.”
“Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers”

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