Cut The Apron Strings Quotes

#1. Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

Karen Salmansohn

#2. It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the strings are virtual?

Kirstie Collins Brote

#3. Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway-line

D.H. Lawrence

#4. My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Harold Pinter

#5. Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.

Lisa Wingate

#6. I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.

Padma Lakshmi

#7. I've always been pretty athletic.

Drew Roy

#8. You were right when you said I was holding onto April's apron strings even though she was trying to cut them. I've spent so long relying on her that it's sort of become a habit. It's time I relied on myself for a bit and took control of my life.

Nicola Sinclair

#9. Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.

Dawson Trotman

#10. You spend so much time hating the fact that April behaves more like a mother than a sister, but you're the one who's holding onto the apron strings every time she tries to cut them.

Nicola Sinclair

#11. The concern of a democracy is that no honest man shall feel uncomfortable, I don't care who he is, or how nutty he is.

E.B. White

#12. If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

Daniel Craig

#13. When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

John Lennon

#14. I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.

Linda Cardellini

#15. The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

Michael Eisner

#16. The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

Karen Salmansohn

#17. Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#18. The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

John Landis

#19. Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take 'no' for an answer.

Lauren Conrad

#20. You cannot fix racism with more racism.

Christina Engela