Mary Ellen Snodgrass quotes

“Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.”
-- Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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“The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.”
-- Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Source : Mary Ellen Snodgrass (1992). “Late Achievers: Famous People who Succeeded Late in Life”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated

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“Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.”
-- Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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“Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.”

“Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.”

“She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over.... Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.”

“What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.”

“although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.”

“Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?”

“I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.”

“It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.”

“Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.”

Source : "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

“My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”