Mebraten Quotes & Sayings

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life. — Art Blakey

Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones. — Douglas Merrill

The Color Of Extraordinary. — Jandy Nelson

I've found my productive-writing-to-screwing-around ratio to be one to seven. So, for every eight hour day of writing, there is only one good productive hour of work being done. The other seven hours are preparing for writing: pacing around the house, collapsing cardboard bxes for recycling, reading the DVD extras pamphlet from BBC Pride & Prejudice, getting snacks lined up for writing, and YouTubing toddlers who learned the 'Single Ladies' dance. I know. Isn't that horrible? So, basically, writing this piece took me the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. — Mindy Kaling

We don't need love to be eternal, only to be in our lives here and now. — Marty Rubin

All of it conspiring to carry them through those first few minutes and through the front door of the house with a lightness that doesn't allow for anything as potentially heavy as an acknowledged fresh start. — Robin Black

What are you doing?"
"Whatever I want. — Cherise Sinclair

Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that and we saw that a lot of these animals that lived in pairs and the father wasn't doing anything at all for the first month. But then suddenly, when the baby got to be a certain weight then the dads chipped in and started carrying the babies which was very nice. And then if there was twins or triplets then they helped. — Patricia Wright

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. — Patricia Hill Collins