Quotes About Person First Language

#1. If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language' ... you're not putting the person first.

Stuart Duncan

#2. This is my pussy, Delaine. My fingers were the first to touch it, my mouth the first to taste it, and my cock will always be the first to fuck it.

C.L. Parker

#3. Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

Nenia Campbell

#4. Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

Jennifer Niven

#5. The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

Mark Helprin

#6. A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

George Herbert

#7. She'd known he'd understand. Brothers and sisters had their own language, their own shorthand. She was glad to be able to share the weird, ridiculous impossibleness of it with the only person who knew all the same stories, with the person who'd made those stories in the first place. (pg. 117)

Holly Black

#8. I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

Olivia Newton-John

#9. There is no absurdity so palpable that one could not fix it firmly in the head of every man on earth provided one began to imprint it before his sixth year by ceaselessly rehearsing it before him with solemn earnestness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. Hell itself is truth known too late

J.C. Ryle

#11. Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

Nicholas Sparks

#12. The two of them might as well have been alone. It was the kind of look that people in love exchanged, or people who were about to kill each other.

Rachel Caine

#13. To be responsibly self-directing means that one chooses - and then learns from the consequences. So clients find this a sobering but exciting kind of experience.

Carl R. Rogers

#14. A thick hide is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer

#15. There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

Francis Bacon

#16. The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

Jackie Pullinger

#17. The boys at the baths loved me. Of course, they were all drunk and high and would've loved a French poodle barking out "Jingle Bells"!

Holly Woodlawn

#18. Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

Richard Rodriguez

#19. There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

Koji Suzuki