"I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life."

-- Sidney Poitier

#Mother Quotes #Two Quotes #Months Quotes

“Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.”
“To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.”
“Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.”
“It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.”
“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”
“I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.”
“I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.”

Source : "The lie of the land" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2007.
“People should be interested in books, not their authors.”

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