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.:~*QUOTATIONS*~:. |
**i'm saving as i go, so some parts may be cut off. forgive me!!** |
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<<Quotation fans |
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." -- Louisa May Alcott |
"All your dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney |
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison |
"Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow." -- James A. Michener |
"A house is not a home." -- Polly Adler |
"All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song." -- Louis Armstrong |
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." -- J. M. Barrie |
"Someone said that God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." -- J. M. Barrie |
"It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist." -- James Fenton |
"You'll never walk alone." -- Oscar Hammerstein II |
"No one loves a fairy when she is forty." -- Arthur W. D. Henley |
"What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is, 'himself.'" -- Henrik Ibsen |
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." -- Randall Jarrell |
"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children." -- Holbrook Jackson |
"Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends." -- Paul McCartney and John Lennon |
"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh I believe in yesterday." -- Paul McCartney and John Lennon |
"Blessed, indeed, is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father." -- Lydia Child |
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three- fold cord is not quickly broken." -- Ecclesiastes4 |
"Lamb says somewhere that if, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A, but "A's part in C", while C loses not only A, but "A's part in B." In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out." -- C. S. Lewis |
"You see, but you do not observe." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
"I brought myself down. I gave them the sword. And they stuck it in." -- Richard Nixon |
"Die, my dear Doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!" -- Lord Palmerston |
"Don't cheer, men; those poor devils are dying." -- Jack Philip |
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance." -- John Ruskin |
"Amazing Grace! how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!" -- John Newton |
"He never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles." -- Samuel Johnson |
"Suns, that set, may rise again; but if once we lose this light, 'tis with us perpetual night." -- Ben Jonson |
"Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree." -- Joyce Kilmer |
"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King |
"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch... If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a man, my son!" -- Rudyard Kipling |
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." -- Harper Lee |
"Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky." -- John Lennon |
"Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same you: I cannot live with you--or without you." -- Martial |
"For I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love." -- John Lennon and Paul MacCartney |
"You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time." -- Abraham Lincoln |
" 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" -- Lewis Carroll |
"I'll tell you a big secret, mon cher. Don't wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day." -- Albert Camus |
"I have come too late into a world too old." -- Alfred de Musset |
"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -- Lewis Carroll |
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. When there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." -- Ella Fitzergerald |
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." -- Langston Hughes |
"When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, they melted as they fell." -- John Dryden |
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." -- G. K. Chesteron |
"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Hence- forth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." -- Og Mandino |
"Can miles truly separate you from friends.. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" -- Richard Bach |
"They died to save their country and they only saved the world." -- G. K. Chesteron |
"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan." -- Count Galeazzo Ciano |
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." -- Sir Winston Churchill |
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -- Sir Winston Churchill |
"I am with you always, ever unto the end of the world." -- Matthew 28:20 |
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration." -- Edward Steichen |
"For every person who has ever lived, there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours." -- Pam Brown |
"Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee." -- Stephen Collins Foster |
"If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind." -- Bob Dylan |
"Dream the impossible dream." -- Joe Darion |
"There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery." -- Dante Alighieri |
"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city." -- Charles Caleb Colton |
"Let them be as they are or not be at all." -- Pope Clement XIII |
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." -- Elbert Hubbard |
"Fair daffodils, we weep to see you haste away so soon." -- Robert Herrick |
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." -- Nathan Hale |
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry |
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost |
"It has been well said, that heart speaks to heart, whereas language only speaks to the ears." -- St. Francis de Sales |
"Even a god cannot change the past." -- Agathon |
"Let justice be done, though Heaven fall." -- John Quincy Adams |
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against someone rather than for somebody." -- Franklin P. Adams |
"Evil be to him who evil thinks." -- Anonymous |
"Things will work out." -- Anonymous |
"There is a lady sweet and kind, was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die." -- Anonymous |