Lynn Johnston Quotes

Its Taken Me A Long Time To Become The Person I Am, For All The Ugliness To Fall Away. The Rotten Flesh Is Gone, And The Seed Is There. I Can Touch That Now.

But Even Though All This Was Going On At Home, If Someone Had Tried To Take Me Away And Put Me In A Children's Home, I Couldn't Have Handled It. Even Though My Mother Was Very Brutal, It Was My Home.

My Mother Was A Very Literate Person Who Had Educated Herself. She Had An Exceptional Vocabulary.

Aaron And I Will Be Joined At The Hip Until The Day We Die. We Have Loved And Hated Each Other Since The Day He Was Born. He's Very Much A Part Of My Heart. He's Going To Broadcasting College Now, And He'll Do Fine. But He Came Into A World That Did Not Welcome Him.

The Emphasis In Doing Any In-depth Photography Is On Building Relationships, Quality Relationships. It's What I Call Thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame Photography. You Need To Enter Into The Community - Not Just Photographically, But Intellectually And Emotionally.

Sure, I've Had Some Bad Times, But Everybody Does. But People Don't Get To Talk About Them Like I Do, Unless They Do To A Therapist. People Don't Get To Put Them In The Paper Like I Do.

But I Married A Guy Who Treated Me Very Badly, But I Was Happy. I Was Miserable, So I Was Happy.

I Know It Sounds Crazy, But I Have Had Far More Connection With My Parents After Their Deaths.

On A Lazy Saturday Morning When You're Lying In Bed, Drifting In And Out Of Sleep, There Is A Space Where Fantasy And Reality Become One. Are You Awake, Or Are You Dreaming? You See People And Things; Some Are Familiar; Some Are Strange. You Talk, You Feel, But You Move Without Walking; You Fly Without Wings. Your Mind And Your Body Exist, But On Separate Planes. Time Stands Still. For Me, This Is The Feeling I Have When Ideas Come.

I Had A Terrible Marriage The First Time Around Because I Had No Self-confidence, Even Though I Had Tremendous Self-confidence.

Mom And Dad Would Stay In Bed On Sunday Morning, But The Kids Would Have To Go To Church.

When Kate Was Born, She Was Born Into A World Of Joy And Happiness And Confidence. The Difference Between The Children Is Night And Day. She's Happy, She's Thriving, She's Full Of Self-confidence. I Tell Her She's Beautiful Every Day Before I Send Her Off To School.