Grandmotherly Synonym Quotes & Sayings

It's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son. — Anne Tyler

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow. — Alexandre Dumas

Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent. — Leo Tolstoy

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors. — Herbert Hoover

Obedience is the fruit and proof of love; and the words of the Master are suggestive, "If a man love Me he will keep My words" (John 14:23). One has forcibly remarked, "When people speak of 'essentials' and 'non-essentials' they generally mean by the former what concerns their own salvation, and by the latter those things which only concern the glory of God! — Alexander Marshall

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement. — Shane Claiborne

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years. — Richard Attenborough

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations? — Nathan Myhrvold

So, over the course of the last year, I've seen Lola blossom from a delicate flower into a durable weed! — Belle Aurora

If we speak of our reason as the impartial bar of judgment we have already taken sides. — Anonymous

It helps sometimes to dwell on the good memories. They remind you that happiness does exist, though it may not seem that way now. — Yvonne Woon

Warriorship is none other than the vitality that sustains all life. — Morihei Ueshiba

Twenty she curses you out by lunch," says Chris.
"Thirty she kills you by lunch," adds Logan.
"I'm getting her number."
The two of them laugh. — Katie McGarry