Turreted Nunnery Quotes & Sayings

Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, "the day of our life," Randall Jarrell called it. — Adam Gopnik

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter. — Georgina Chapman

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score. — Jimmy Buffett

This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end. — Lao-Tzu

I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time. — Kathryn Stockett

It is a vice to spend years and centuries saying of progress, 'I should like it, but I do not want it. — Henri Barbusse

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. — Eric Hoffer