"Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?"

-- Amy Chua

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.”

Source : "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey". Documentary, 2014.
“My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.”
“Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.”
“I'd rather teach peace.”
“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.”
“No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”
“Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maggie O'Connell". "Northern Exposure" ("Mite Makes Right"), Season 5, Episode 13, 1994.
“I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard”

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