Cicadas Movie Quotes & Sayings

But the long hours of mechanical drudgery were telling on his active body and undisciplined nerves. He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life; and after the long dull days in the office the evenings at his grandfather's whist-table did not give him the counter-stimulus he needed. — Edith Wharton

In fact, they didn't even keep track of birth dates here. Instead, they used a traditional method of counting a person's age. Newborn babies were "one year old," and became one year older at the start of the new year. As for the reason it didn't start at zero... I was briefly afraid I'd discover they didn't yet have the concepts of zero or place-value notation. In fact, they had both. Newborn babies being "one" was just a holdover from previous times, before the numeral "zero" existed within their culture. Old — Kanata Yanagino

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul...
— Ernest Renan

How can you be confident when someone else holds your fate?
Conner, kiss the Sky — Krista Ritchie

Acting makes you live plenty of lives. — Emmanuelle Riva

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines, — Warren Buffett

Be the change that you want to see — Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here. — Laura Berman

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it. She pulled back slightly, to look into his eyes. And then there was a shot. — Jodi Picoult

She is loveliness itself. — Jane Austen

I was told that I should never lie or cheat or steal, for instance, but my father - a sometimes Jew, he called himself back then - was far more likely to focus on the practical. Never go out in the rain without a hat, he would tell me. Never touch a stove burner, on the off chance it still might be hot. I was warned that I should never count the money in my wallet in public, or buy jewelry from a man on the street, — Nicholas Sparks