Catawbaschoolshomepage Quotes & Sayings

Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction ... She makes no choice herself; everything that happens has equal significance. Nothing can be dispensed with. This is a common mistake that many people make: They think that half of nature can be destroyed - the uncomfortable half - while still retaining the acceptable and the pleasing side. — Eliot Porter

Our love was perfect. We were not. — Jessica Harman

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. — Vanessa Hudgens

Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole. — Amy Poehler

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason. — Jay Electronica

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age. — Abigail McCarthy

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? — Andy Warhol

There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah — Sheikh Abdullah

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So? — Bill Bryson

Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid. — Hilary McKay

[On Jimmy Carter] Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place. — Marshall McLuhan

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. — William Wordsworth

To change the world we must heal our women, because it is the women who teach us how to love. — Robert M. Drake

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. — John Gierach