"I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!"

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Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

Natalie Merchant

#Wish Quotes #Youth Quotes #Appreciated Quotes

“I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.”
“Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.”
“You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.”
“Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.”
“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.”
“I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.”
“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancÃ©,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”
“We linked handsâ€”my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and Iâ€”and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.”

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