"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."

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Source : "My Mother's House". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1922.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Family Quotes #Children Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.”
“Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.”

Source : Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.”
“I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.”

Source : Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.”
“Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.”
“All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates”
“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

Source : Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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