Gebbia International Quotes & Sayings

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

A concern with parenting ... must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not. — Nancy Chodorow

Drama - what literature does at night. — George Jean Nathan

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen

I'd lost my wife and I still didn't feel what I did now, watching Chloe with another man. Her smile, her laughter, her touches - they should have been mine. — Kendall Ryan

Visits. Your parents plainly think you're a loser. You don't have the guts to walk out of even the — Jojo Moyes

How does he do it? Bob in Charge of All Three Kids is an entirely different show
than Sarah in Charge of All Three Kids. With Bob, they're happily willing to be independent little taskmasters, content to leave him in peace until he comes to them with an offer of a new activity. With me, I have all the magnetism of a favorite rock star without the bodyguards. They're on me. A typical example: Linus is under my feet, whining, begging to be picked up, while Lucy hollers, "Mom, I need help!" from another room, while Charlie asks me forty-seven hundred relentless questions about what happens to trash. — Lisa Genova

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time. — David Walliams

I wondered stony afternoons owning all their vastness. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Do I get a bonus for letting him grab my boob?"
"Your boob, like the rest of you, belongs to the NYPSD. Besides, McNab's going to ride you like a racehorse first chance. That's your bonus."
"You brought up sex and McNab!"
"This once, also your bonus."
"I've got this outfit at home Dolly would wear. I'm going to put it on tonight and - "
"You didn't earn that big a bonus. — J.D. Robb

Anastasia, I'm not a hearts and flowers kind of man, I don't do romance. My tastes are very singular. You should steer clear of me." He closes his eyes as if in defeat. "There's something about you, though,and I'm finding it impossible to stay away. But I think you've figured that out already. — E.L. James

You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster! — Stephenie Meyer

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise. — Benazir Bhutto

That Astronomical Annoyance, the Star Shell, Which Momentarily Enables You to Scrutinize the Kind of Mud You Are In. — Bruce Bairnsfather

It was an awe-inspiring and humbling thought, Chacko said (Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world), that the whole of contemporary history, the World Wars, the War of Dreams, the Man on the Moon, science, literature, philosophy, the pursuit of knowledge- was no more than a blink of the Earth Woman's eye.
"And we, my dears, everything we are and ever will be are just a twinkle in her eye," Chacko said grandly, lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling. [ ... ] Later, in the light of all that happened, twinkle seemed completely the wrong word to describe the expression in the Earth Woman's eye. Twinkle was a word with crinkled, happy edges. — Arundhati Roy