Seryozha Quotes

#1. His father always talked to him - so Seryozha felt - as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys that exist in books, utterly unlike himself. And Seryozha always tried with his father to act being the story-book boy.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. In life, we must first learn to crawl, then stand, then walk, then run, and only then, fly. We cannot crawl into flying.

R.v.m.

#3. This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.

David W. Earle

#5. He stills, and our eyes lock, his narrowing, holding mine captive. "Run to me, not from me.

Lisa Renee Jones

#6. ... for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#7. I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.

John Steinbeck

#8. There ought to be limits to freedom.

George W. Bush

#9. Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Leo Errera

#10. If someone wants to give you money, whatever the source, you should take it. Every religious-historical authority agrees about that.

Antal Szerb

#11. Ignorant of the place it had been and blind to where it was headed.

Clive Barker

#12. Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.

Daniel Humm

#13. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

David Douglass

#14. Don't push away that chance if you're one of the lucky ones who find that partner. And remember, you can always change a job. I hear it's much harder to switch out a husband.

Mika Brzezinski