Mammies Country Quotes & Sayings

Do not worry about failure, I would tell them. Do not worry about making mistakes in life. It is good to lose money, to go broke at least once, and preferably twice. But if you are going to do it, do it early in your career. It is better to go bust when you are talking about $20,000 than when you are talking about $20 million. Do it early, and it is not the end of the world. — Jim Rogers

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. — Leonard Ravenhill

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. — Ray Davies

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. — Jodi Picoult

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought — William Shakespeare

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances. — Harold Ramis

Inwardly we are whirlpools of misery and mischief and therefore to be regarded outwardly as a great figure is very gratifying. This craving for position, for prestige, for power, to be recognized by society as being outstanding in some way, is a wish to dominate others, and this wish to dominate is a form of aggression. The saint who seeks a position in regard to his saintliness is as aggressive as the chicken pecking in the farmyard. And what is the cause of this aggressiveness? It is fear, isn't it? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content. — Willem De Kooning

You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours. — Taylor Jenkins Reid