Disinherit A Child Quotes & Sayings

I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole — Shelley Jackson

The building, it so happened, was a music college of the kind she herself had left two years before, abandoning her lifelong hopes of becoming a professional musician; she recognised the piece as the D minor fugue from Bach's *French Suites*, a piece she had always loved and that caused her, hearing it so unexpectedly, to feel there on the pavement the most extraordinary sense of loss. It was though the music had once belonged to her and now no longer did; as though she had been excluded from its beauty, was being forced to see it in the possession of someone else, and to revisit in its entirety her own sadness at her inability, for a number of reasons, to remain in that world. — Rachel Cusk

Do you want to be famous? — Queen Diana

A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after--the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other. — Arthur C. Danto

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him. — Thomas Carlyle

This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. A country in which shooting down unidentified planes "on suspicion" can be seriously considered as a drug-war tactic is not the kind of United States that either you or I want to hand on to future generations. — Milton Friedman

More than Christianity, the religion of Victorian times was a belief in human advance - the conviction that freed from ignorance and superstition, humanity could expand its power and be master of its destiny. — John N. Gray

A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win? — Robin Sharma

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did. — Barack Obama

We shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations. — Plato

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq. — Ernest Istook

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else. — Hayden Fry

Normal people don't wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don't disinherit their sons because they didn't get the child they wanted. — Leigh Bardugo

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy ... those things that you can't really practice. — Scarlett Alice Johnson

Some day, I hope to be quoted. — Ron Scheer

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource. — Kathy Calvin