Pinkava Plant Quotes & Sayings

Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be. — Jennifer Senior

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements. — Michel Foucault

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support. — Isadore Sharp

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that. — Darren Boyd

And this commitment of ours - consciously devoid of official commitment - felt miraculous in its liberation. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you. — Warren Buffett

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see. — F Scott Fitzgerald

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another. — Cornelius Nepos

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. — Edwin Louis Cole

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !! — Winston Churchill