Listen

Famous quotes containing the word listen:

“I’ll not listen to reason.... Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
—Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)

“Once children grow up, they don’t listen to their mothers.”
—Chinese proverb.

“To be perfectly, brutally honest, those of us who are still carrying diaper everywhere we go are not at our most scintillating time of life....We need to remember that at one time in our lives, we all had senses of humor and knew things that were going on in the world. And if we just keep our social networks open, there will be people ready to listen when we once again have intelligent things to say.”
—Louise Lague (20th century)