"Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations."

-- Jimmy Carter

#Responsibility Quotes #Pride Quotes #Past Quotes

“A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.
“I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.”
“Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.”
“And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.”
“A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.”
“I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.”
“There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.”
“I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.”

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