"God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west."

-- Mike Royko

#Country Quotes #Nuts Quotes #West Quotes

“Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good”

Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1952). “The happy place”
“If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!”
“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”
“I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.”
“As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.”

Source : Biography\Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.”
“I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...”
“I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way 'Community' means something to people. That's more powerful than ratings.”

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