Greenslade Quotes & Sayings

Winter makes you old — Frances Greenslade

There should be different words for giving birth than the ones we have. 'Giving' should at least be 'undertaking' or 'undergoing'. I remember in church how the priest said, 'Mary bore Jesus', and I always thought of it as 'bored'. But now that I know what 'bore' means, and now that I've seen what Jenny went through, it's a much better word than the passive 'the baby was born', like it's as easy as growing fingernails — Frances Greenslade

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going. — Chet Baker

But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes. — Deborah Moggach

A little baby girl trying to soothe her girl of a mother — Frances Greenslade

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. — Deborah Moggach

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus

The pain was a river I rode; I could not plant my feet in it or it would knock me down — Frances Greenslade

Edward was good at finding Emil's most vulnerable places. Some people are like that. Siblings maybe most of all — Frances Greenslade

My family worry for me because I'm gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire. — Brad Pitt

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep. — Masha Gessen

Run while you have the light of life, that the darkness of death may overtake you not." (Rule of St. Benedict)) — Frances Greenslade

Failure to plan is planning to fail — Frances Greenslade

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing. — J.C. Ryle

And as for risk, there's risk in pretty near everything a body does in this world. - Marilla Cuthbert — L.M. Montgomery