Donald Don Hollinger Quotes & Sayings

Grandkids are the kids we all should've had before we had kids. — Lou Silluzio

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness. — Thomas Carlyle

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct. — Marty Rubin

Here is tragedy and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum. — H.L. Mencken

Lighten your life with a simple life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future. — Abigail Scott Duniway

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination. — Rick Riordan

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. — Edward Gibbon

From them I had nothing to learn - one cannot cease to know what one does know. — Thomas Ligotti

Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was not the only sufferer. Dad had hurt him, but he had hurt Dad as well, and they were both responsible. Feeling responsible was not as comfortable as feeling outraged. — Ken Follett

That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate's clothes, but it didn't make me Kate. — Sharon Sant

There is a timbre of voice
that comes from not being heard
and knowing / you are not being
heard / noticed only
by others / not heard
for the same reason. — Audre Lorde

This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty — Ravi Shastri

None of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture. — Richard Dawkins