"How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?"

-- Rachel Cusk

#Mother Quotes #Littles Quotes #Might Quotes

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine ...”
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.”
“That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.”
“Good food and good eating are about risk.”
“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
“Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan: I didn't accept it. I received it.”
“You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.”

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