"Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop."

-- Elif Safak

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.”
“Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.”

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.
“If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.”

Source : "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.
“The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.”
“To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.”
“It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.
“I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?”
“I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.”

Source : "Q&A: The Funniest Man on The Mindy Project". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. February 19, 2013.

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