"When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms."

-- Eudora Welty

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Ice Cream Quotes

“I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.”
“It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.”
“I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.”

Source : Time Out Chicago interview, www.timeout.com.
“If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others.”
“Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.”
“It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.”
“You have to endure what you can't change.”

Source : Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult
“Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.”

Source : "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000.

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