Zeppa Quotes

#1. But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. Measure twice, cut once, and trust humans never.

Justin Zeppa

#3. We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

Susan Hampshire

#4. Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Jennifer Senior

#5. I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.

Jamie Zeppa

#6. Well, put it this way
I don't want to ever imagine a moment without you next to me ever again.

Gretchen De La O

#7. This is my favorite part of the day. "Good morning, Class Two C," I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, "Good morning, miss!" Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it with so much conviction that I laugh.

Jamie Zeppa

#8. Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

T Bone Burnett

#9. Anyone can live anywhere. You think you can't in the beginning, but then you do.

Jamie Zeppa

#10. The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Soichiro Honda

#11. This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. We stop when we reach the top, climb out, shivering in the cold and ghostly mist under wind-blasted trees, to read the sign erected by the Public Works Department: "You have reached Trumseng La, Bhutan's highest road pass. Check Your Brakes. Bash On Regardless. Thank you."

Jamie Zeppa

#13. I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.

Jamie Zeppa

#14. We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.

Carl Sagan

#15. I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

Jamie Zeppa

#16. If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.

Howard G. Hendricks

#17. Here was this really nice guy who happened to be uber-shy ... and with just a little encouragement, he was suddenly smiling and joking and having fun. Really, what had taken them so long?

Melody Carlson

#18. Information and action combined are indestructible.

Ben Tolosa