Grandma Duties Quotes & Sayings

In creating the only hard thing's to begin — James Russell Lowell

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it ... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum. — Robert Baden-Powell

Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people feel better and old men throw away their sticks and dance." Tshikona "brings peace to the countryside ... " It is an example of the production of the maximum of available human energy in a situation that generates the highest degree of individuality in the largest possible community of individuals. — John Blacking

It is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us. — L. Frank Baum

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis. — James Monroe

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything. — E.F. Schumacher

I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum — Mervyn Peake

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. — Truman Capote