Judith Ellen Levy quotes

“No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful.”
-- Judith Ellen Levy

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“When a child is born, so are grandmothers.”
-- Judith Ellen Levy

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“I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.”
-- Judith Ellen Levy

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“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

“My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.”

“You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”

“Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.”

“What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?”