Allington Furniture Quotes & Sayings

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away. — Mark Twain

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. — Alain De Botton

Don't trees swallow the fire of the sun? When wood burns, is it not surrendering all those photons of energy that the tree's leaves once snatched from sunlight and eventually stored within woody fiber? — Mark Warren

An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely. — T.A. Miles

You can let go of me, Kayden."
"That's not going to happen," he promises, his voice low, as seductive as everything else about this man is, and when I look at him, that wolf is back in his eyes as he adds, "In case I didn't make that point already." ~Surrender — Lisa Renee Jones

She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower. — Ellen Cooney

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man ... Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker ... Japanese mothers sleep with them ... All these tactics are compatible with normal health
physical and mental
and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom. — Melvin Konner

Seeing my children in the morning as they come down from their bedrooms makes my heart come alive. There's just no better moment in my day. — Kevin Griffin

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters. — Sam Wyly

Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine. — Louisa May Alcott

The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods. — Emile Durkheim

I'll have to get you excited more often. That was the cutest thing you just did. — J.B. McGee