"Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind."

-- Joseph Addison

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.”
“Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.”
“I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.”

Source : "Q&A: Emily Ratajkowski on 'Blurred Lines' and Her Song of the Summer". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 22, 2013.
“A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.”
“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”
“I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.”

Source : Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
“I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.”
“Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.”

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