Polixeni Papapetrou famous quotes

I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the world so economically. You can learn so much from the wisdom of the young and the old. I'm just in between!
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Love You #People #Looks

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Ideas #Curiosity #Looks

I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Children #Thinking #Parent

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Mother #Children #Independent

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Boys #Body #Adolescence

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Looks #Sometimes #Wonder

Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Children #Thinking #Lucky

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Parent #Transition #Exciting

Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.