"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's……" — Jane Smiley
"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."
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102 Quotes by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley has 102 quotes on this site.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out…
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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a…
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew…
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the…
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the…
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into…
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best…
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that…
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More Grandchildren Quotes
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except…
— David Attenborough
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
— Edward Abbey
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as…
— Kathleen Battle
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the…
— Jacob Bronowski
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the…
— Luther Burbank
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it…
— Leo Buscaglia
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
— Barbara Bush
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
— Dale Carnegie
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be,…
— Dante Alighieri
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I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I…
— Hugo Chavez
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