#tea

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there. ↗

— Amy Grant

#brings #christmas #christmas eve #come #cool

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#been #catholic #characteristics #combination #combined

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#church #dry #half #ice #instead

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. ↗

— Al Green

#believe #child #everyone #fail #i

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ↗

— Benny Green

#instead #jazz #jazz musician #juggler #musician

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

#believer #big #big believer #classics #cold

They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans. ↗

— William Green

#fans #side #stayed #teammates #time

I'm grateful that the team allowed me back. I'm looking forward to making it up to them. ↗

— William Green

#back #forward #grateful #i #looking

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#make #really #someone #something #teach