"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing."

-- Toni Morrison

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.”
“It's probably also smart to keep some money in cash to invest it. But I would resist at all costs taking a lump-sum distribution because the tendency is to spend out too fast in the early years of your retirement. The advice of professionals is to take out no more than 5% per year and that will give you 20 years of distributions, and at your age, 55, you probably have more than 20 years life expectancy.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.”

Source : Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins
“Respect the old, but seek out the new.”
“The highest state is laughter.”
“Yes, and you should question your government.”

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