"The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Children Quotes #Home Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.”
“I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.”
“Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.”
“Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”
“It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 32, 2003.
“To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,â€”this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2008). “A Country Doctor”, p.238, Bantam Classics
“You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'”

You may also like:

Erma Bombeck
Column Author
Frederick William Faber
Writer
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Helen Rowland
Journalist
Joseph N. Welch
Counsel
Julius Charles Hare
Writer
Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist
Luc de Clapiers
Writer
Peter McWilliams
Author