Quotes & Sayings About Grandsons And Grandmas

It is a joke to me that this man should have presented himself as an ardent conservationist, since so many of the companies he served as a director or in which he was a major stockholder were notorious damagers of the water or the soil or the atmosphere. But it wasn't a joke to *MacIntosh, who had come into this world incapable of caring much about anything. So, in order to hide this deficiency, he had become a great actor, pretending even to himself that he cared passionately about all sorts of things. With — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mary in Christianity, Isis in ancient Egypt, Demeter in Greece, Venus in Rome and Guan Yin in China have all functioned as conduits to recollections of early tenderness. Their statues often stand in darkened, womb-like spaces, their faces are compassionate and supportive, they enable us to sit, talk and cry with them. The similarities between them are too great to be coincidental. We are dealing here with figures that have evolved not out of shared cultural origins but in response to the universal needs of the human psyche. — Alain De Botton

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust. — Dean Koontz

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. — Mary Engelbreit

As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs. — Sinead O'Connor

There's no point in me going to mixers and getting attached to people when I'm only going to be there nine months. * — Jenny Han

The State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty. — James Madison

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it. — Fergie

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. — Plato

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues. — Chris Thomas King

Men like Ove and Rune were from a generation in which one was what one did, not what one talked about. — Fredrik Backman

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide — Sarah McLachlan

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice. — Conn Smythe