Trisdon Federic Quotes & Sayings

Most people don't know how to take compliments. That's the biggest problem in America - we're hesitant to give compliments and embarrassed at getting them. — Letitia Baldrige

Yes, I know, because schools are cruel, illogical, and unfair. But the thing is, life is cruel, illogical, and unfair. That is why the education system works so well. If schools and teachers did a good job and inspired children and made them enthusiastic about every subject, they would only be sadly disappointed when they got out into the real world. Better to disappoint them when they're young. It is more important to learn to cope with disappointment than learn how to do long division." - Nanny Piggins — R.A. Spratt

The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet crossed on top of each other like a child's. He watched her sleep and struggled to see her as she was, but what he saw instead were her muscles and bones. He saw right through the skin to where her femur connected to her tibia by way of the ligaments, to the hair web of nerves and the delicate forest of her lungs, to the abstract heart pumping blood through her arteries. It terrified him how easily these systems could fail her. — Nicole Krauss

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. — Bill Cosby

You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is. - Anonymous — Laura Dave

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. — Winston Churchill

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison. — Jim Bakker

The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today. — Robin S. Sharma

Don't think for one minute that you are any less worthy of love and peace and harmony just because of all the hate spewed by human devils. Because that is what those haters are, you know, devils! — Scylar Tyberius

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. — Christian Nestell Bovee

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge. — Tom Watson

Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place. — John McLeod