Distinctive Beach Quotes & Sayings

It's a good excuse, though, orphanhood. It explains everything - every mistake and wrong turn. As Sherlock Holmes declared. She had no mother to advise her. How we long for it, that lack of advice! Imprudence could have been ours. Passionate affairs. Reckless adventures. Of course we're grateful for our stable upbringings, our hordes of informative relatives, our fleece-lined advantages, our lack of dramatic plots. But there's a corner of envy in us all the same. Why doesn't anything of interest happen to us, coddled as we are? Why do the orphans get all the good lines? — Margaret Atwood

Do not look at the problems or circumstances but continue to move forward — Sunday Adelaja

She'd found a way between the cracks in my armor and blew it apart. I wanted to have the same effect on her — Helena Hunting

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper. — Mark Bernstein

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting. — Amy Chua

It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages. — Christine Taylor

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning. — Chesley Sullenberger