Haroutioun Shamamian Quotes & Sayings

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews. — Scott Ian

It was the season of sex, yes, but it was also, in all the vital ways, without sex itself - and isn't that one useful definition of a happy girlhood? I didn't know or appreciate this aspect of my luck until well into adulthood, when I began to find, in more cases than I would have guessed, that among my women friends, irrespective of background, their own childhood sex seasons had been exploited and destroyed by the misdeeds of uncles and fathers, cousins, friends, strangers. — Zadie Smith

I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it ... seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me. — Duane Allman

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror. — Francis Quarles

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model. — Ben Horowitz

Memory in its ordinary way summoned harvested fields, and haycocks and autumn hedges, the first of the fuchsia, the last of the wild sweetpea. It brought the lowing of cattle, old donkeys resting, scampering dogs, and days and places. — William Trevor