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“my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.”

People Young Bits Waste Ears Decades Tiny Mice Elders Attics Relays

Book:Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter

Source: Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter

“An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.”

Way Eye Life Is Gone Waste Consequence Flow Ears Active Impression Motor Incomplete Pupils Active Life

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It's also instilled in my family culture, where it's not even an ethical thing, it's just that all those parts are delicious, too. You eat the ears, you eat the intestines, you eat the livers, the hearts.”

Trying Heart Culture Animal Waste My Family Ears Responsible Meat Ethical Delicious Liver Intestines

Author:Thu Tran

“The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.”

Firsts Soul Joy Clear Sorrow Waste Lows Ears Hymns Swans

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.”

World Doe Real Magic Waste Ears Real World Deathless

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.”

Lost Simple Race Poet Waste Ears Vain Toil Flattery Tribute

Author:Walter Scott

“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard”

Ifs Giving Feels Trying Children Hard Enough Walks Pay Waste Ears Raises Sorry Maturity Good Enough Awards Adulthood I'm Sorry Promotion

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold