Remembering Grandparents Quotes & Sayings

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not. — Learned Hand

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. — Arthur Miller

Gravity is the force of attraction that exists between any two objects, any two masses, any two bodies. Gravity isn't just an attraction between an object above being pulled toward the gravitational center of the earth. Gravity is an attraction that exists between all objects, in all of the universe - the closer they are, the stronger the pull. — Katy Evans

Don't place your dreams in the hands of those whom can destroy them. — Paulo Coelho

Talking doesn't help everybody. "Not that you'd know." Yeah. Not that I'd know. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming. — Iwan Rheon

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model. — Linda Ronstadt

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway. — David Nicholls

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny. — Anders Hejlsberg

I view art as an inspirational tool. — Thomas Kincade

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?" — Sam Mendes

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived. — Isabel Allende

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened. — Francis Alexander Durivage

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. — Saint John Chrysostom

Loving me to you seems worthless. It aches my heart that I love you more than I love myself. I love you more than you love yourself. — Hans Lindor

His eyes sparkle with some kind of hidden knowledge as he lets me pass, like beautiful people know the meaning of the universe and are amused by us ordinary folks who have to bumble along in the dark. — L. H. Cosway

Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. So the belief that remembering is an ethical act is deep in our natures as humans, who know we are going to die, and who mourn those who in the normal course of things die before us - grandparents, parents, teachers, and older friends. Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together. But history gives contradictory signals about the value of remembering in the much longer span of a collective history. There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited. If the goal is having some space in which to live one's own life, then it is desirable that the account of specific injustices dissolve into a more general understanding that human beings everywhere do terrible things to one another. * * * P — Susan Sontag