Presence

Famous quotes containing the word presence:

    The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.
    Fred Rogers (20th century)

    Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
    Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, and we are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)