Retaining Wall Quotes

#1. Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

#2. Good parenting, from my perspective, is like building a three-foot retaining wall against a four-foot wave. The kids have to make up that extra foot. That wave wants to drag them into an undertow where sound judgment is suspended, where the valueless, uncaring, and ultimately nihilistic cool reigns.

Greg Gutfeld

#3. Love is illogical, love had consequences
I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

Marie Lu

#4. It's scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn't our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that's the one thing we can't control.

Henry Cloud

#5. The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#6. What are you thinking about? What you focus on right now will tend to come into your life a little later. Here's your reminder to change your mind.

Joe Vitale

#7. There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Gale Sayers

#8. There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Harry S. Truman

#9. Many of the things that stifle growth are morally neutral. They're not bad things. Facebook is not bad. Television and movies are not bad. I enjoy TV, but it doesn't take long for me to begin to find humorous on TV what the Lord finds heartbreaking.

Matt Chandler

#10. But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

Jon Taffer

#12. Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

A.A. Milne

#13. I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

Norah Jones

#14. It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

Dan Simmons

#15. So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

Sherwood Smith