Ostian Road Quotes & Sayings

One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don't know all, and what they do know, they often won't tell you- because they've got their own agendas, or because they want to shield you from the hard truths "for your own good." Adults lie, they betray, they screw up in every way possible ... — Robin Wasserman

Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist. — Dana Rohrabacher

If I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault. — Susan Messing

To be successful, you must leave the church walls behind and go out — Sunday Adelaja

Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail. — Sally Jewell

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. — Hesiod

Face everyday's challenge with smile, or at least, try to — Rina Suryakusuma

At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow. — Herman Melville

Who is good and who is bad? Life isn't black and white, Javier. You and I, we're just trying to live in all the grey. Isn't that what you've done? Isn't that what you want? To live? — Karina Halle

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. — Jane Jacobs

Riley Bay wasn't human.
But if he wasn't human, then what was he? An alien, sent to Earth to learn about humanity in preparation for an invasion? Riley was certainly weird enough to be an alien, but I didn't see why the mother ship would send him to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in the guise of a high schooler. — Serra Elinsen

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future. — James Howard Kunstler

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota. — Al Franken

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class. — Joel Kinnaman