"I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures."

-- JoAnn Ross

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #Stories Quotes

“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”

Source : Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”
“Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.”

Source : Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”
“It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.”
“He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.”

Source : Jean–Pierre Camus, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spirit of Saint Francis De Sales”, p.505, Aeterna Press
“Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.”
“A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.”
“I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.”

Source : "A diva who defined the disco moment" By Mark Coleman, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2012.
“I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.”

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