Dell Istruzione Parentale Quotes & Sayings

He skied Mount Bachelor. I wasn't much of a skier, so I went off to track down wildlife while he had a great time on the slopes. Meeting him at the lodge afterward, I had to head off a leggy blonde who was intent on teaching Steve how to use an American pay phone. Not the kind of wildlife I was interested in him experiencing. — Terri Irwin

Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people. — Frederick Lenz

Wingback chairs had been originally designed to protect their occupants either from drafts or the heat of a fire. — Barbara Delinsky

But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and the airs smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping? — Herman Melville

Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind. — Arthur C. Clarke

You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different. — Jodi Picoult

I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing. — Felicity Kendal

Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity. — Max Brooks

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin ... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine. — Rabindranath Tagore

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli. — James Dyson

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it. — Laurence Gonzales

If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief. — Bryant McGill

When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower ... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!' — Jay Leno

We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God. — Brother Yun