Fidgeting Quotes - Page 2

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Knowledge, Parenting

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). “Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis”

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• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, Hunting, Diversity

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• I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Dance, Witty

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• The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

  Mario Lopez

  Sports, Sisterhood, Men

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• All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Work, Equality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Flower, Secret

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• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Loss, Sisterhood

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Niece, Sea, Rivers

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Dream, Writing, Bedtime

  FaceBook post by Jerry B. Jenkins from Feb 20, 2015

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• Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

  Denis Waitley

  Change, Self, Affirmation

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• My horse needs to be quiet enough not to draw my attention. You want your horse always aware of you. Be aware of your horse! Fidgeting? Direct that! Think of it as a gift. Do something with that energy; redirect it or it will be a negative. Don't let your horse check-out. A horse wants peace. Trade movement for peace.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Energy

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• Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Government, Political, Liberty

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

  Howard Nemerov

  Poetry, Sometimes, Kindergarten

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• There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

  Shirley Knight

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, Giving Up, Secret

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• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Law, Aggravation

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.305

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Flower, Love You

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• In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.

  Julia Roberts

  Pretty Woman, Tonight, Good Times

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