Essex Cab Quotes & Sayings

The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had in common. As I lay in bed at night, the sky outside my window reflecting the city's dim glow, I thought about Abuelita's fierce loyalty to blood. But what really binds people as family? The way they shore themselves up with stories; the way siblings can feud bitterly but still come through for each other; how an untimely death, a child gone before a parent, shakes the very foundations; how the weaker ones, the ones with invisible wounds, are sheltered; how a constant din is medicine against loneliness; and how celebrating the same occasions year after year steels us to the changes they herald. And always food at the center of it all. — Sonia Sotomayor

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle. — Alain De Botton

Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either. — Madonna Ciccone

If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it. — Henry Rollins

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it. — Luke Evans

Wishes are premonitions of abilities. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother ... It was my father ... It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life. — Jeff Buckley

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? — Fanny Crosby

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them. — Jodi Picoult