7240 Combine Quotes & Sayings

My mother once wrote a poem about rivers. They were women, she wrote. Starting out small girls, tiny streams decorated with wildflowers. They were torrents, gouging paths through sheer granite, flinging themselves off cliffs, fearless and irresistible. Later, they grew fat servicable, broad slow curves carrying commerce and sewage, but in their unconscious depths catfish gorged, grew the size of barges, and in the hundred-year storms, they rose up, forgetting the promises they made, the wedding vows, and drowned everything for miles around. Finally they gave out, birth-emptied, malarial, into a fan of swamps that met the ocean. — Janet Fitch

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass. — Dawn Olivieri

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England — Steven Morrissey

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen. — Tom Hanks

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that. — Neil Jackson

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him. — Cory Doctorow

I feel like everything is possible. — Caroline Wozniacki

I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals. — Ron Davies

Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future."
Cooper Interstellar — Steven Stennett

I think it certainly is the responsibility of the rich to support and regenerate society. — Jamie Johnson

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. — Andrew Delbanco