"our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first."

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Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.58, Penguin

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Daughter Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“It gives me great peace to know that no matter how good or how bad I do, the Lord loves me. That's all that really matters to me. Baseball isn't what everything is about. It's about the way I'm being a Christian husband, a Christian father, or the way I'm living my life and trying to be a Christian testimony to people.”
“There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.”
“People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.”
“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”

Source : Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
“When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.”
“God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.”

Source : Vikas Swarup (2013). “The Accidental Apprentice”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.”
“All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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