Grandnieces Quotes & Sayings

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [ ... ] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. — Anne Lamott

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it. — Gabriel Mann

Whether he remained here, or found a means to leave, he ought certainly to possess himself of the best possible weapons. By the term Mr. Lecky understood some sort of firearm. The fact that he was totally unacquainted with the use of guns assisted him in the illusion that, given a revolver, he would instantly become formidable. Trusting machines as he did, he regarded a revolver as a small killing machine. He believed that its operation required little more than pointing and pulling a trigger. The revolver would obediently deliver, unerring and fast as light, death to a great distance. — James Gould Cozzens

Furi had shown him the reality of what it meant to blow someone's mind. Syn was a changed man. He was a fucking bottom, and he embraced that designation. He loved the feel of something penetrating his ass, stretching his hole. It was so much so fast, but he wasn't looking back and he damn sure had no regrets. — A.E. Via

When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same. — Demi Lovato

The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration. — William P. Young

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. — Nina Blackwood

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. — G.K. Chesterton

What drives the creative person is that we see it all. — Wanda Sykes

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. — Ray Bradbury

I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do. — Euripides

I am small," she said, "but mighty. — Courtney Milan

I didn't realize it at the time, but suppressing my emotions wasn't a sign of strength, it was a sign of weakness. I feared my own emotions, and I blocked them out, how tough could that really be? To tackle them head on, that was the real challenge. Once I understood that I didn't need to resist my emotions, that's when things changed; once I understood that resisting them wasn't controlling them, no matter how hard I tried. — Jeffrey Sands

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass. — Ferdinand De Saussure

When you do children's TV or one episode [guest] stuff, you have to listen, which is also a great thing to learn. But you don't have individual input. — Yasmin Paige