Consunji Family Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it. — Marian Engel

Though simple, the trick was something that struck me as useful right now. Thus, the 'when I was little' nostalgia was misleading: it turned something that I was taking seriously as an adult into something soupier, less precise, more falsely exotic, than it really was. Why should we need lots of nostalgia to license any pleasure taken in the discoveries we carry over from childhood, when it is now so clearly an adult pleasure? I decided that from now on I wouldn't get that faraway look when describing things that excited me now, regardless of whether they had first been childhood enthusiasms or not. — Nicholson Baker

All love stories are tragedies. — R.K. Ryals

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars. — Ellen Stofan

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! — Dennis Weaver

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening. — Anna Gunn

And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do. — Ally Carter

The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty. — Rob Zerban

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent. — Nancy Duarte

Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together. — Zubin Mehta

A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement. — Matthew Reilly

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance. — Neko Case