"So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV"

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Tom Lehrer

#Mom Quotes #Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.”
“Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.”
“I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.”
“You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.”
“It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.”
“To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.”

Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
“If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.”

Source : "Was It a 'Riot,' a 'Disturbance' or a 'Rebellion'?" by Swati Pandey, www.latimes.com. April 29, 2007.
“In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.”

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