Grandfather Wedding Speeches Quotes & Sayings

bowls of cornflakes, — Maeve Binchy

Smiles are such a simple thing to give but means so much to many. — Tony Curl

Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? — Lloyd Alexander

There aren't that many superstars around anymore. — Al Yankovic

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian, — Aaron Rodgers

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author. — Barack Obama

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The idealists and relativists are not mentally sick. They prove their soundness by living their lives according to the very notions of reality which they in theory repudiate and by counting upon the very fixed points which they prove are not there. They could earn a lot more respect for their notions if they were willing to live by them; but this they are careful not to do. Their ideas are brain-deep, not life-deep. Wherever life touches them they repudiate their theories and live like other men. — A.W. Tozer

A dance to the music of time. — Anthony Powell

To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed. — Norman Vincent Peale

Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable. — Liz Miller

I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention. — Meghan Trainor

The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story. — K.M. Soehnlein

He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. — Cormac McCarthy

Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue. — Symeon The New Theologian