Family Lexicon Quotes & Sayings

When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves. — John Twelve Hawks

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Most people think that they want spacious homes, but they don't realize how the emptiness of a large room just amplifies the emptiness in a broken heart. And we're all broken, in one way or another. — Cassia Leo

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship. — Jaron Lanier

All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things they could never truly explain to outsiders: that a book or a dress meant more than something to read or something to wear; that attention came with expectations that - like snow - drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight. All the words were right, but in this new Nath's voice, they sounded trivial and brittle and hollow. The way anyone else might have heard them. Already her brother had become a stranger. — Celeste Ng

Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk. — Harold Payson

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention. — Sean Lennon