"Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground."

-- Mary Pipher

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way”

Source : Song: Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows, Album: Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts
“There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.”
“I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to wait for the next generation. The most we could expect is, perhaps, another interim agreement. A Palestinian state? A permanent settlement? I do not see that happening in the coming years.”
“I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.”
“I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.”

Source : Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.52, Univ of California Press
“I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.”
“Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.”

Source : "The Truth About Diamonds". Book by Nicole Richie, 2005.
“In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.”

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