Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.