Grandinetti Scrap Quotes & Sayings

It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path. — David W. Orr

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain. — John Locke

In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation. — Bernie Glassman

They scoot away from each other as soon as I open the door, like they're afraid that their cuddling will bruise my eyes. — Hannah Moskowitz

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America. — Stanley Hauerwas

Love is nature's way of ensuring pregnancy — Sujatha

I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever. — Sam Altman

There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she makes when she turns or slightly bends our unwieldy form. It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence. When she's no longer twenty-eight and pregnant and beautiful, or even free, she won't remember the way she set down the spoon and the sound it made on slate, the frock she wore today, the touch of her sandal's thong between her toes, the summer's warmth, the white noise of the city beyond the house walls, a short burst of birdsong by a closed window. All gone, already. — Ian McEwan

The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel times. From a whimsical child's teapot to an elegant English Teapot, to collectible teapots that adorn some homes, they are a subtle reminder of all that is good in this world. — Barbara Roberts

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle. — Demetri Martin

I swear to god, Angie, you're like Kryptonite - you fucking break me. — J. Kenner