Annual Day Welcome Speech Quotes & Sayings

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism. — Laurance Rockefeller

What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms. — Kobayashi Issa

The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?) — Tim O'Brien

I like to think that birds do not die, they simply fly away to heaven when their time here on earth is up — Ella Clem

She turned her head to him then. Her face was as cool as the sea off Cornwall, yet her eyes blazed purple fire. "No, thank you, my Lord", she said bitingly. "I find I no longer care for your library, or anything in it. — Heather Snow

Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything. — Victor Hugo

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians. — Garth Nix

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. — Alexandre Dumas

And once again the Rewarder and the Punisher stalk off, struggling to understand why knowing the code behind the wine does not diminish its pleasure on your tongue, why knowing the inescapability of heartache does not reduce its sting, why glimpsing the mechanics of love does not alter its intoxicating appeal. — David Eagleman

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. — Wole Soyinka

Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it's still a little grimy. — A.D. Aliwat