"I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow."

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Source : Francisco X. Alarcón (1993). “No Golden Gate for Us”

Francisco X. Alarcon

#Family Quotes #Roots Quotes #Use Quotes

“Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.”
“An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.”
“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”
“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”

Source : Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. Thatâ€™s how you learn who you are.”
“Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.”
“The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.”
“The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.”

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