Miquita Oliver quotes

“There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.”
-- Miquita Oliver

#Home Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Domestic Violence Quotes

“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

“…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….”

“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.”

“If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.”

“I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.”

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

Source : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.69, Penguin

“Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”

“These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.”