Joan Ryan Quotes:

Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

Topics: Teacher, Children, Motherhood

Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide...

Topics: Animal, Research, Lasts, Medical Breakthroughs, Animal Research

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

source: - Joan Ryan (2009). “The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Dark, Thinking, Rooms, Dark Room

We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.

Topics: Microwaves, Ovens, Nations

Sports have a way of touching people.

Topics: Sports, People, Touching