| "That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional." »Laurie E. Colwin |
| "I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrire than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue." »Alexander Meigs Haig |
| "Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen." »Albert Einstein |
| "Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep." »Unknown |
| "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour." »Stephen Butler Leacock |
| "Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." »Edith Newbold Jones Wharton |
| "Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus." »Walter Stegner |
| "You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive." »Thomas Arnold Bennett |
| "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue." »Henry James |
| "When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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