Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. "
Nancy Gibbs
Driving
People
Act
Related Quotes:
" The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. "
Nancy Gibbs
White
Woman
Down
" We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. "
Nancy Gibbs
Want
Leader
Power
" You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children. "
Nancy Gibbs
Children
Family
Crisis
" Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips. "
Nancy Gibbs
Hands
People
Thought
" It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. "
Nancy Gibbs
Luxury
Paris
Grand Canyon
" Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it. "
Nancy Gibbs
War
Tired
People
" There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. "
Nancy Gibbs
Slow
Lost
You
" All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. "
Nancy Gibbs
Ends
Bring
Reckoning
" If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized. "
Nancy Gibbs
Time
Anything
Landscape
" I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. "
Nancy Gibbs
World
Newspaper
News
" While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. "
Nancy Gibbs
Others
Alien
Expensive
" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "
Nancy Gibbs
Love
Start
American
" Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. "
Nancy Gibbs
Grateful
Classroom
Parent
" Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal? "
Nancy Gibbs
Criminal
Been
Action
" George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. "
Nancy Gibbs
President
More
Than
" Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. "
Nancy Gibbs
You
Want
Imagination
" Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle. "
Nancy Gibbs
Long
Light
Fruit
" I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm? "
Nancy Gibbs
Book
Live
Need
" If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share. "
Nancy Gibbs
Millennials
Always
Looking
" A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. "
Nancy Gibbs
Moon
Power
More
" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "
Nancy Gibbs
Accounting
Pain
Natural
" Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. "
Nancy Gibbs
Safety
Power
Best
" Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down. "
Nancy Gibbs
Dinner
Down
Dining
" We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers. "
Nancy Gibbs
Will
Know
Never
" Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. "
Nancy Gibbs
Against
Today
Parents
" I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. "
Nancy Gibbs
Teachers
Believe
Family
" We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. "
Nancy Gibbs
Stay
Inside
Grass
" Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.' "
Nancy Gibbs
Walk
America
Down
" Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager. "
Nancy Gibbs
Practice
Failure
Golf
" After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter. "
Nancy Gibbs
Man
Office
Country