Nodding Quotes

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.