Dear Sweet Pea Quotes & Sayings

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. — Max Lerner

He knew that the King was so much bigger than the circumstances they faced. — Chuck Black

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason. — Pope Francis

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. — George Saintsbury

He caught Kin's eye and grinned again. Joel often grinned. Palaeolithic genes had somehow met again at his conception, and a slab face like Joel's had to smile frequently lest it frighten small children. When his face brightened it was like the dawn of Man. They spoke, and not merely with words. Between them they were 400 years old. Now words were mere flatcars on which towered cargoes of nuance and expression. — Terry Pratchett

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people. — Luke Bryan

Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all. — James Patterson

You girls ... reminded us ... of us ...
... kids just trying ... to make a living ...
are always ... the good guys ... — Brian K. Vaughan

A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering and discipline; because it is the only art that pertains to him who commands. And it is of such virtue that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but many times makes men rise to that rank from private station. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get. — Terence

'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.' — Matthew Pearl