"It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back."

-- Terry McMillan

#Firsts Quotes #Behind Your Back Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.27, Penguin
“in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group
“I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.”
“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.”
“[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.”
“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear”
“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
“It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle”

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