"Thereâ€™s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave."

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Winning Quotes #Parent Quotes #Down And Quotes

“Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”

Source : Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation
“I want to entertain people, but with some substance.”
“Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.”
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
“My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.”
“There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.”
“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”
“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

Source : Justina Chen (2009). “North of Beautiful”, p.119, Hachette UK

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