"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."

-- Frank McCourt

#Childhood Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.”

Source : Bruce Barnbaum (2017). “The Art of Photography, 2nd Edition: A Personal Approach to Artistic Expression”, p.165, Rocky Nook, Inc.
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.”
“I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.”
“I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”

Source : Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.
“Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.”
“Drugs are for idiots. I'm never going to be that person.”
“...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.”

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