"The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next."

-- Lillian B. Rubin

#Vision Quotes #Age Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.”

Source : Twitter post from May 24, 2013
“We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.”
“I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.”

Source : "Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.
“Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.”
“Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?”
“Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.”
“Many people who excel are self-taught.”
“Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.”

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