“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 230 of 709
“It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.”
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”
“Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.”
“It is better to be faithful than famous.”
“Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.”
“I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.”
“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
“Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.”
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
“Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.”
“I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.”
“I cannot live without books.”
“Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.”
“If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.”
“Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.”
“Dressing well is an expression of manners.”
“I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.”
“Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving”
“My yardstick is how somebody treats me.”