Edgcumbe Quotes & Sayings

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. — Major Owens

I love you Max,"Fang said ... "God, Max I love you so much."
I know. I thought. I've always known — James Patterson

Surrendering to change is always a leap of faith. For something new to enter your life, you have to let go of the past and join your immediate experience right now. The key is less in what you do than how connected you are in yourself as you do it. In life there is no predetermined path you should or have to walk; you lay down the path by how you take each step. This is one of life's greatest truths. — Richard Moss

You're behaving generously, old boy, and, you know, one needs a devil of a lot of tact to get people to forgive one one's generosity. Fortunately women are frivolous and they very quickly forget the benefits conferred upon them. Otherwise, of course, there'd be no living with them.
[The back of beyond] — W. Somerset Maugham

The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories. We might even follow the example of the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, who in the late eighteenth century had a thirty-foot-high Neoclassical obelisk erected on a hill on the outskirts of Plymouth, in memory of an unusually sensitive pig called Cupid, whom she did not hesitate to call a true friend. — Alain De Botton

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. — Lawrence Welk