"Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey."

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Amanda Lindhout

#Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes #Home Quotes

“My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.”
“Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.”
“Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.”

Source : 'Games People Play' (1964) ch. 18
“A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
“A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.”

Source : "Alison Jackson's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2007.
“I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm always sticking up for other people.”

Source : "Sophie's world". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

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