"For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life."

-- Amy Chua

#Senior Quotes #Father Quotes #Home Quotes

“They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.”
“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.”
“It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.”

Source : 1882 The State in Relation to Labour.
“Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.”

Source : Erving Goffman (1969). “Where the action is: three essays”, Lane, Allen
“Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.”
“Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.”
“I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out”

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