Granny Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and ingratiated himself with the multitude, stirred up and exasperated the most eminent men of the city, who had long borne a secret grudge to Theseus, conceiving that he had robbed them of their several little kingdoms and lordships, and, having pent them all up in one city, was using them as his subjects and slaves. He put also the meaner people into commotion, telling them, that, deluded with a mere dream of liberty, though indeed they were deprived both of that and of their proper homes and religious usages, instead of many good and gracious kings of their own, they had given themselves up to be lorded over by a new-comer and a stranger. — Plutarch

Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control some of the contingencies in their lives. What people knew about had action-value. In the information world created by telegraphy, this sense of potency was lost, precisely because the whole world became context for news. Everything became everyone's business. For the first time, we were sent information which answered no question we had asked, and which, in any case, did not permit the right of reply. — Neil Postman

Giving is the insured way of getting. — Mark Victor Hansen

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity. — George Gissing

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love — Spencer W. Kimball

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life. — Ingrid Michaelson

At the heart of drama is conflict. — Paul Dano

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant. — Michelle Tea

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention. — Lawrence Korb