#become

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#away #become #child #fully #grow

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. ↗

— David Frum

#anybody #audience #become #born #britain

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#injuries #none #slight #small #will

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#become #been #confidence #control #empowering

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#once #prisoner #reveal #secret #slave

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#action #advisor #become #cease #desire

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ↗

— William H. Gass

#country #eye #flies #landmarks #looking

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#been #certain #certain point #day #hero

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#finish #impossible #more #picture #terrible

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#brothers #characters #coen #detail #enriched