A Quote by Molly Ivins

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

Molly Ivins

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Adolescence Endure Forget How Idols Never Never Forget Tend Them

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Molly Ivins
American - Journalist
August 30, 1944 - January 31, 2007

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Karen Kingsbury

I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.

Benjamin E. Sasse

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.

Sathya Sai Baba

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

Mary Russell Mitford

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Frederick Buechner

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Reza Aslan

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go: eash then clean with tears, Leave them to bleach, out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends’ clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,— But we forget not, never can forget.

Dinah

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

They may forget what you said - but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buehner

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I want you to say 'Never Forget' because when you say 'Never Forget' you're thanking that veteran in a different way. You're allowing them to be thankful for the idea for the fact that as an American you're in it with them. We're in it together and we don't forget together.

Dan Crenshaw

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

James M. Barrie

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.