Addies Cochrane Quotes & Sayings

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? — Elizabeth Kostova

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice. — Gertrude Atherton

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren't just for envying, avoiding, or disliking. — Cassandra Clare

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations. — John Green

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick. — Christian Scott

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead. — Sophocles

You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family. — Sophia Bush

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan. — Ashley Jensen

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference ... they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself ... Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions ... We shall be heard. — Cesar Chavez

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe itself. At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African pirates alone from 1500 to 1800, and some Europeans slaves were still being sold on the auction blocks in the Egypt, years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States. — Thomas Sowell

Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain. — Anthony Liccione

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather. — Louisa May Alcott

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time. — Jostein Gaarder

That if I let myself go, did not always slow me down by thinking so much beforehand I could achieve many things I would never have dreamt possible!! — Per Petterson

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison. — Samuel Hopkins Adams