Maycombe Quotes & Sayings

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there. — Josie Loren

The only need is to know yourself and look into your heart. There you will find all things. Look for the light that is within you and you will have found God. — Douglas James Cottrell

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. — Ayn Rand

And if anybody asks me is it easy to forget
I'll say it is easily done,
you just pick anyone,
and pretend that you never have met — Bob Dylan

I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. — Rob Bell

I looked in the mirror once more. The new clothes felt like salt on the raw wounds, but they covered the worst of it, and I looked less alarming, less confronting, less hideous. I smiled at the mirror. I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me. — Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes it's hard to predict who will make a person happy. But in the end, that's what matters. — Kody Keplinger

consistent caretakers and allowed to interact with one another, that their survival rates improved (Blum, 2002). What better evidence is there that the brain is a social organ requiring positive human connection as much as food and water? Educational experts are guilty of a similar myopathy when they focus on curricular content and test performance rather than the social world of students and teachers. — Louis Cozolino

My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she did teach me to be a talker with my own children. — Susan Shreve

We were never happy with the way cello was recorded, and we wanted to experiment in the studio to make the cello rock as much as possible. On the second album, we had great help from Bob Ezrin, who helped us develop our sound even more. — Luka Sulic

He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said he made up every edition of The Maycombe Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype. — Harper Lee

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life ... To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self. — Selma Fraiberg