"Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different."

-- Lewis Grizzard

#Mean Quotes #Yankees Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.”
“That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!”
“Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.”
“I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.22, Macmillan
“Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt at communication appropriate. Celebrate the whole person.”
“In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.”

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books
“I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.”
“Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.”

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