"My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole."

-- Marion Jones

#Baby Quotes #Careers Quotes #Important Quotes

“God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didnâ€™t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.”
“All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.”
“Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.”
“She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.”

Source : Jesmyn Ward (2012). “Salvage the Bones”, p.262, A&C Black
“When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 30, 2007.
“No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.”
“You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.”
“I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.”

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