Gary Smalley Quotes

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

Gary Smalley

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Heroes

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Faith
  • Best

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • May
  • True

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lucky

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Love
  • Happy

• What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Men
  • Virtue
  • Conscience

• I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Going
  • Work Ethic

• Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Father
  • Political

• Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Know
  • Same
  • Sadness

• Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Age
  • Giving
  • Christian

• It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Ocean

• I like throwing snowballs at small children.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Children
  • Small
  • Like

• My children and I can talk about anything and everything. It makes it easier. They know I’m doing my best, and that’s the best I can do.

  

  Claudia Brant
  • Children
  • Best
  • I Do

• When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

  

  David Guterson
  • Writing
  • College

• Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

  

  Gary Smalley
  • Children
  • Loved
  • Valued