#sage

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#brothers #child #confusing #does #fork

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#blue #fills #joy #lest things #message

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#always #effects #gets #just #measure

I can't envisage stopping writing. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#i #stopping #writing

My message has always been about resilience. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#always #been #message #resilience

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

#picasso #sausage #someone #thinks #who

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids. ↗

— Loretta Devine

#absolutely #aids #become #bodily #catch

My use of language is part and parcel of my message. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#message #parcel #part #use

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#advent #conveys #message #much #poem

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#eating #message #really #teenage #teenage girls