"I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight."

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Two Quotes

“God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.”
“I just eat life... I engage in life.”
“Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.”
“Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.”
“I haven't been a leader -- not at all.”
“There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.”
“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK
“Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.”

Source : "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

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