Abbeyfield School Quotes & Sayings

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different. — John Berger

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. — Adrienne Clarkson

When a new company is formed, its founders must have a startup mentality - a beginner's mind, open to everything because, well, what do they have to lose? (This is often something they later look back upon wistfully.) But when that company becomes successful, its leaders often cast off that startup mentality because, they tell themselves, they have figured out what to do. They don't want to be beginners anymore. That may be human nature, but I believe it is a part of our nature that should be resisted. By resisting the beginner's mind, you make yourself more prone to repeat yourself than to create something new. The attempt to avoid failure, in other words, makes failure more likely. — Ed Catmull

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone. — Evan Esar

All mountain people are like that. No matter where you go, the mountains call you back. — Karan Bajaj

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human. — Julie Kagawa

It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know? — George Harrison

There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. — Wendy Cope

I really do believe that anything in life, any obstacle or challenge, can be made better with humor. — Amy Poehler

When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes. — Criss Jami

I wondered, not for the first time, that the world could bear the weight of so many foul people. "Besides, — Sebastien De Castell

With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play. — Simon Mainwaring

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap. — Jimmy Buffett