Grand Aunt Quotes & Sayings

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end. — David Frum

Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail. — Tony Blair

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. — Ziggy Marley

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin. — Barbara Steele

As if it were important, he strained his memory; beside the sofa there had been a large lamp with a round milk-white base encircled by a chain of painted roses, and beyond that, on the wall, neatly framed, was a series of water colors done by a forgotten aunt during her Grand Tour. But — John Edward Williams

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in. — Henry Miller

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. — Emile Durkheim

Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!"
Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked.
"That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know. — Lewis Carroll

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it. — Vince Flynn

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs. — DJ Spooky

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied. — Adeline Yen Mah

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single ... and tell you, it's not gonna sell ... that's what the label does. — Ray Lamontagne

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty. — John Taylor

Learn your lessons quickly and move on. — Eileen Caddy

Certainly she had little experience of the world (Aunt Cord reminded her of this almost daily), but She had an idea that people who set on by saying Let me be honest with you were apt to go on by telling you straight-faced that rain fell up, money grew on trees, and babies were brought by the Grand Featherex. — Stephen King

We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
Trees that start again. — Robert Bly

I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely passive, like the racing of light under clouds on a field, the beautiful dream at the moment of being dreamed. The breeze is the merest puff, but you yourself sail headlong and breathless under the gale force of the spirit. — Annie Dillard