"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place."

-- Zhang Ziyi

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.”
“When I work out, I feel happy, confident, and accomplished.”

Source : "Nina Dobrev's seventeen fitness cover shows off her beach-ready body" by Nuzhat Naoreen, www.mtv.com. April 27, 2011.
“Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.”
“It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.”
“Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.”
“If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.”
“Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.”
“The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.74

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