"I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world."

-- Maria Semple

#Mom Quotes #Fall Quotes #Giants Quotes

“There are plenty of publicly-funded organizations and nonprofits that are trying to develop GMO crops that could help feed people in developing nations by producing disease-resistant or drought-resistant strains of staple crops like cassava or bananas.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.”
“When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.”
“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”
“I think recognition outside of Japan is amazing. I don't feel like that kind of thing would ever happen to me, as I'm not like those kinds of designers - I don't want to express myself in such a categorized way. I kind of want to be in the middle of the majority and the minority. I don't really want people to know what I am.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2011). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, p.231, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.”
“Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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