"The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother."

-- Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Reality Quotes

“People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.”
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”

Source : E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.25, RosettaBooks
“I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”
“The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.”
“A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.”
“As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.”
“You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceÃ¦, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.”
“It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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