Broadsheets School Quotes & Sayings

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family. — Heinrich Boll

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. — Alain De Botton

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this. — Andrea Portes

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy. — Alberto Fujimori

Well tarnation you're a meanie pants aren't you?" ~Miss Mary~ — Lucian Bane

A Japanese woman friend whose infant son died seven days into his life - no detectable reason - just the small breathing becoming nothing until it disappeared, told me that in Japan, there is a two-term word - "mizugo" - which translates loosely to "water children." Children who did not live long enough to enter the world as we live in it. In Japan, there are rituals for mothers and families, practices and prayers for the water children. There are shrines where a person can visit and deliver words and love and offerings to the water children. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. — Terry Pratchett

Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat. — Leighton Meester

By the beginning of March, K Company, 333rd Regiment, had reached the Rhine. The men settled down in the village of Krefeld to await Montgomery's Operation Plunder, the crossing of the river; Monty was planning the operation with as much care as he had put into Operation Overlord, so the pause was a long one. By some miracle, the men found an undamaged high-rise apartment building in which everything worked - electricity, hot water, flush toilets, and telephones with dial tones. The had their first hot baths in four months. They found cigars and bottles go cognac. Pvt. Ray Bocarski, fluent in German, lit up, sat down in an easy chair, got a befuddled German operator on the phone, and talked his way through to a military headquarters in Berlin. He told the German officer he could expect K Company within the week. — Stephen E. Ambrose

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing. — Bernhard Goetz

I just sort of lost my head for a little while. — John Mayer

Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life. — Hafsat Abiola

You said earlier you don't even know what kind of ice cream you like and that's basically a mortal sin, so we're here to find out! — Stormy Smith