Lamiae Quotes

#1. It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

John Wooden

#2. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. Jason shouted in his best drill-sergeant voice: Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!

Rick Riordan

#4. Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me, All His wonderful passion and purity. Oh, thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine, Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.

Barbara Hughes

#5. Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

Lewis Gannett

#7. Our children forever changed our relationships with our mothers. Pity replaced the mild contempt with which we had previously regarded them, and we loved them as we never had before, as we could only love ourselves, because despite our best intentions we had become them.

Anthony Marra

#8. Everyone thinks Angelina Jolie was the first celebrity baby hoarder, but she wasn't. Before Angelina there was Mia Farrow. Mia had an entire farm full of children. I think she got them at Costco.

Joan Rivers

#9. It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Vernon Howard