"Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it."

-- Nancy E. Turner

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Children Quotes

“Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”
“Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.”
“When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.”
“You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.”
“Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.”
“High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.”

Source : Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson (2008). “Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources”, Prentice Hall
“Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.”
“The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.”

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