Absent Grandparent Quotes & Sayings

This inability to just do nothing is a direct result of our habit of externalisation. As children we are never taught in schools, or in social settings, to look within ourselves for answers. Whether it is that our answers are found in some sort of religion, or another person, or in something else, we start to make this common practice. We are indecisive in life looking to friends, family, counsellors, teachers, and even strangers for advice. We are never taught or, better yet, shown how to look after our number one relationship in life, which is the relationship with one's self. — Evan Sutter

He bought her a pretty music box with a picture of the castle in winter painted on the lid, and she slept on his shoulder on the train ride home. — Michael Schmicker

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy. — Bea Arthur

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. — Thomas Brooks

This is hard ... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.'
Josie & Ash — Maya Banks

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions ... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks. — Alan Greenspan

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself. — Dalai Lama

A final caution to students: in making judgments on literature, always be honest. Do not pretend to like what you really do not like. Do not be afraid to admit a liking for what you do like. A genuine enthusiasm for the second-rate is much better than false enthusiasm or no enthusiasm at all. Be neither hasty nor timorous in making your judgments. When you have attentively read a poem and thoroughly considered it, decide what you think. Do not hedge, equivocate, or try to find out others' opinions before forming your own. But having formed an opinion and expressed it, do not allow it to petrify. Compare your opinion then with the opinions of others; allow yourself to change it when convinced of its error: in this way you learn. Honestly, courage, and humility are the necessary moral foundations for all genuine literary judgment. — Laurence Perrine

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. — Orson Welles

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive. — Adrienne Clarkson

What if talking about your feelings doesn't fix anything? What if what you really need is to make the feelings go away? — Amy Reed

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up. — C.S. Lewis

money: a unit of account, a store of value - portable power. — Niall Ferguson

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied. — Randall Robinson

The sky had started off bluffing, convoys of dark clouds scurrying across like sheep to market. But by afternoon a perfect blue canopy stretched from horizon to horizon. — Abraham Verghese