Massetti Manhasset Quotes & Sayings

It's too painful to us to admit that our children won't wait to grow up because their parents are busy with other things... — Fredrik Backman

Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it. — C. Sommerville

Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring. — Annie Proulx

It's kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family. — Patty Loveless

Don't kill the golden goose. — Malcolm McLaren

One of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

She was slender, and wonderfully graceful. Except that her movements were languid - very languid - indeed, there was nothing in her appearance to indicate an invalid. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. — Melissa Bean

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent. — Mortimer J. Adler

The dead," she said. "And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you'd think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements." She looked up at the chimney overhead, as though she were imagining the souls it had conducted in its time. "They're gone, they can't be hurt anymore, but we drag their memory around with us, doing our worst in their name, like it's what they'd want, for us to avenge them? I can't speak for all the dead, but I know it's not what I wanted for you, when I died. — Laini Taylor

Principle III:;: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop. — William Ernest Hocking

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice. — Timothy Keller

Leaders are dealers in hope. — Mark Miller

Odd pushed himself to keep walking, one step at a time, remembering back when he had walked with ease and never thought twice about the miracle of putting one foot in front of the other and pushing the world towards you. — Neil Gaiman

...Juliana. Should you cease to exist, so would I. — Kathleen Collins