"If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ..."

-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 15, 2016
“Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.”
“Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. Â But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Â Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.”
“I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.”

Source : Mel White (2015). “STRANGER AT THE GATE”, p.308, Simon and Schuster
“It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.”
“I was not asked whether I would have a problem having Michael Sam on my team. I would not.”
“In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.”

Source : Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”
“A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.”

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