This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Your flour is your dream and your bread is your fulfillment. The environment in which your flour is baked can influence the shape of your bread... Just take it as simple as that!

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

He said he owned the land, He said he owned the sea, Through his sweet lies and manipulation, He was trying to own me

Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.