Cardboards Quotes & Sayings

Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and find the hidden places. Her written words, discovered, read were just the source of more pain and punishment. This was why she loved poetry. They did not always understand it so they left it alone. — Bell Hooks

Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother. — H. Burke Peterson

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings. — Antoine-Marin Lemierre

The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. — Stephen Crane

Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run - but it could just as easily cost you everything. — Joanna Shupe

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. — Claire Tomalin

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. — E. M. Forster

Bronwen came over plenty of Saturdays after that, but I was always shy of her. I think I must have fallen in love with Bronwen even then and I must have been in love with her all my life since. It is silly to think a child could fall in love. If you think about it like that, mind. But I am the child that was, and nobody knows how I feel, except only me. And I think I fell in love with Bronwen that Saturday on the Hill.
Still, that is past. — Richard Llewellyn

Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on. — Carl Sandburg

The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences. — Rutherford B. Hayes

testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. — Anonymous