"My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich."

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Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

Carol Rifka Brunt

#Mother Quotes #Looks Quotes #Sandwiches Quotes

“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

Source : Eugenics Review, Apr. 1914
“I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals. It was kind of a metaphor for this larger marriage of the banks selling off their debt and these street guys scrapping over it.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.”
“She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.”
“I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.”
“I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to the wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place at the wrong time For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme On the wrong day of the wrong week I used the wrong method with the wrong technique Wrong”
“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.”

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