Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others' needs, I ached to reestablish myself.

Glennon Doyle Melton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1976

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When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

ChangeScienceSchoolParentsStudy

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Jesse Ventura

PeopleMeRestNowWillTaxes

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

Maurice Ashley

MeConversationMeetingMindsUp

I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.

Anna Faris

UncertaintyEverythingHeartbreak

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

Andy Partridge

NeverCostSomethingUsPaidGet

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.

Steve Aoki

MusicTimeYouRealBoundariesTake

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Rory Kinnear

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Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

Michael Leunig

KindActSomethingPursuitDesperate

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

David Zucker

ThinkThinkingLaughSeriousMovies

I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.

Christian Kane

HomeCollegeStreetHighWhereTown

I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped me find my voice.

Courtney A. Kemp

CreativityMeVoiceFindingFind

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Bruno Mars

LifeMottoMeSomeoneTryingYou

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