Idealise Quotes

#1. It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?

Donald Woods Winnicott

#2. The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

Richard Rogers

#3. I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Jane Horrocks

#4. Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

John Dewey

#5. Feel free to kiss it better.

Jill Shalvis

#6. Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.

Frederick Lenz

#7. If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again ... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

Alexis Stewart

#8. Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

Bill Cosby