Mary Sutherland Quotes & Sayings

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. — Owen Feltham

The child's parents are not his makers but his guardians. — Maria Montessori

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal. — Adam Mansbach

To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive in oneself, to see the Creation anew, to welcome one's part in it anew. — Wendell Berry

She entered the hall at the same time he did from the opposite side. With a cry that told her exactly how worried she'd been about him, she raced into his arms.
She could hear the reverberation of his laugh in his chest as he lifted her up and spun her in his arms. Still in his embrace, he set her feet back on the ground and pressed a quick kiss on her lips, the brevity of which she suspected was due to their audience. His voice was low and husky. "Miss me?"
-Kenneth Sutherland & Mary of Mar — Monica McCarty

Whereas John and Yoko might have comfortably lounged around in holiday mode on palatial country estates ... the Lennons had this extraordinary urge and need to put something back. To stand up for reason in an unreasonable world, to take advantage of their extraordinary media profile to refocus public attitude and outlook on the murdering of other humans. (Ritchie Yorke) — Yoko Ono

The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt. — Lupe Fiasco

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately. — John Key

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
"A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting."
"You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain ... It was there all the time, just waiting for me. — Shay Youngblood