Cammie McGovern quotes

“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”
-- Cammie McGovern

Source : Cammie McGovern (2010). “Neighborhood Watch: A Novel”, p.184, Penguin

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“I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.”
-- Cammie McGovern

#Love You Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Selfless Quotes

“Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.”
-- Cammie McGovern

Source : Cammie McGovern (2014). “Say What You Will”, p.11, Harper Collins

“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”
-- Cammie McGovern

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“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”
-- Cammie McGovern

Source : Cammie McGovern (2014). “Amy and Matthew: A Love Story”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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“Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.”
-- Cammie McGovern

Source : Cammie McGovern (2010). “Neighborhood Watch: A Novel”, p.9, Penguin

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“I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.”
-- Cammie McGovern

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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”

Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"

“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”

“I feel betrayed by own mother.”

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

“QUOTES BOUQUET: Three Things You Should Never Sacrifice: Family, Heart And Dignity”

“Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.”

“This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

“The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.”

“She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.”

“As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.”