Ellemist Quotes & Sayings

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye. — Mariella Frostrup

Life is the best teacher. — Anthony D. Williams

What is wise in this world exists equally inside of us and outside of us, and it is through collaboration that wisdom, stories, songs are made manifest. — Joanne Arnott

Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances. — Samuel Johnson

If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey. — Jeffrey R. Holland

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me. — Tavis Smiley

Drawing up her spear, Ellemist lunged towards the mighty leviathan. — Muse

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow. — Alexander McCall Smith

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started. — Pete Hamill

The great mentor is master builder of great students. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. — Samuel P. Huntington