Brookside Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. — Wilfrid Laurier

Not as we are but as we must appear,
contractual ghosts of pity; not as we
desire life, but as they would have us live,
set apart in timeless colloquy.
So it is required; so we bear witness,
despite ourselves, to what is beyond us,
each distant sphere of harmony forever
poised, unanswerable. It is without
consequence when we vaunt and suffer,
or if it is not, all echoes are the same
in such eternity. Then tell me, love,
how that should comfort us-or anyone
dragged half-unnerved out of this worldly place
crying to the end "I have not finished."
From 'Funeral Music — Geoffrey Hill

When I work in San Francisco doing stand-up, I usually schedule it for July, and we'll drive up the coast and camp in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and we'll just camp our way up the coast, and then we'll get to San Francisco and hang out there for four days. — Greg Fitzsimmons

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you. — Ian Somerhalder

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory. — Ross Perot

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef. — Alfred Lord Tennyson