Burgeoning Define Quotes & Sayings

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. — Mordecai Richler

I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care. — Mary Shelley

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second that she can hear you," she tells them. "She's aware if everything that's going on." She stands there with her hands on her hip. I can almost picture her snapping gum. Gran and Gramps stare at her, lapping up what she's telling them. "You might think the doctors or nurses or all this equipment is running the show," she says, gesturing to the wall of medical equipment. "Nuh-uh. She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come on back. You're waiting for her. — Gayle Forman

Next one hundred years we are history — Tasleem Khan

The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness. — Sterling W. Sill

The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules. — David Chiles

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord. — Barbara Kingsolver

He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina. — Victoria Hanley

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius. — George Gershwin

It has always seemed to me that one of the more deplorable aspects of dying, aside from the terror, pain and filth, is the fact that when I am gone there will be no one here to register the world in just the way that I do. Don't misunderstand me. I have no illusions about my significance in the torrid scheme of things. Others will register other versions of the world, countless billions of them, a welter of worlds particular each to each, but the one that I shall have made merely by my brief presence in it will be lost for ever. — John Banville

You look good. There's no better ass in a pair of jeans in the entire county and it's mine to tap. — Kristen Ashley