Quotes & Sayings About Parents Setting Good Examples

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing. — Melinda Gates

You have asked her to marry you, I hope'
'I might have demanded it', he admitted.
'Even better — Julia Quinn

I was at the foot of my class. — Thomas A. Edison

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac — Aldo Leopold

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts. — Anthony Bourdain

In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny. — Kim Il-sung

The visionary is the only realist. — Federico Fellini

But when he said he couldn't shoot, it just seemed to make an odd sort of
sense to tell him that Hermione couldn't dance. It fit, really. Men were supposed to shoot, and women
were supposed to dance, and trusty best friends were supposed to keep their foolish mouths shut.
Clearly, all three of them needed a bit of instruction. — Julia Quinn

When people don't travel to places different from those they inhabit in their routines they become habituated to the actualities of their worlds. They see things as one, knowing what they see is true. Nothing in their experience has the possibility of exposing the frailty of their illusions, of self, of world, of morality and each other. — Jeffrey Panzer

I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail. — Peter James

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite. — Philip K. Howard

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time. — Nalo Hopkinson

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. — Rabindranath Tagore