Book Learning English Quotes & Sayings

I don't know why I always feel like crying when I'm around him. When I think about him. When I read about him. It's like my emotions are still tethered to him somehow and I can't figure out how to cut the strings. — Colleen Hoover

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards. — Samuel Johnson

It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other pains around it. I tell myself that pain is information, that I am learning to map the spaces of my own body. Then my body's feelings cascade toward my side, and pain pours over its outlines and erases them. ("Marriage") — William S. Wilson

I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye ... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something. — Stella Vine

May God protect us from every calamity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are disagreements and conflicts in the relationship, but each individual cares enough about the other to make up and forgive. (Dogs forgive us far easier than we forgive them.) Parents — Suzanne Hetts

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less. — Henry Adams

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded. — Nicolas Sarkozy

Know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff ...
We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
All adversities, so we can get through fast. — Q-Tip

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. — Khaled Hosseini

What are you thinking? She asks.
-That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not. — Mary Gaitskill

Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we're to have a future worth living. — Raffi Cavoukian