Grandmother’s knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.
– LB Taylor Jr
Related Quotes:
- The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn’t real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. – Alton Thompson
- Ghosts!- gasped Alice. -œReal, live ghosts?--œNo! Not -˜real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts! – Kellyn Roth
- MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don’t believe in luck. Good or bad. – Hillary DePiano
- Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates. – Jon Stewart
- I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. – Shirley Temple Black
- In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. – Timothy B Tyson
- Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with -œIt’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world? – Mindee Arnett
- God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time. – Bil Keane
- God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups. – Oliver Markus
- Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! – Francis Pharcellus Church
- The real Santa Claus is at the mall. – Lemony Snicket
- It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you. – Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers. – Eve Chase
- I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts. – Graham Joyce
- If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own. – Billy Graham
- A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together! – Israelmore Ayivor
- All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. – shaikh mustafa
- Supposedly, guys think about sex every eight seconds. If that’s true, how can they talk to their grandmothers? – Jody Gehrman
- As grandmothers used to say, ‘Better to pay the grocer than the doctor – Michael Pollan
- I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something. – Mary E Pearson
- Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. – Wendell Berry
- We learn from history that we don’t learn from history! – Desmond Tutu
- He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. – Laini Taylor
- The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
- Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
- History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
- You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
- All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late. – Kenneth Roberts
- What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid’s Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting? – HG Wells
- Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou
- The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race’s knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. – Maya Angelou
- You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them. – Terence McKenna
- A little knee time first thing in the day keeps u standing all day! – Evinda Lepins
- Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind. – Hilary Mantel
- He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water. – Paula Fox
- I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept. – Harper Lee
- We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses. – Richard Rohr