"I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up"

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Source : Song: Valentine, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

Fiona Apple

#Growing Up Quotes #Growing Quotes #Cups Quotes

“What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?”
“A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.”
“Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”

Source : "Happy Spouse-- Happy House: The Best Game Plan for a Winning Marriage" by Pat Williams, Ruth E. Williams, David Wimbish, 2009.
“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?”
“If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.”
“God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.”
“Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon.”
“Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.”

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