Country Beach Songs Quotes & Sayings

There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future. — Adam Lindsay Gordon

Maturity
A stationary sense ... as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body grows
Inaccurate, tired;
Then I shall start to feel the backward pull
Take over, sickening and masterful
Some say, desired.
And this must be the prime of life ... I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
This pantomime
Of compensating act and counter-act,
Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
My ablest time. — Philip Larkin

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity. — Yann Martel

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies. — Jacki Weaver

The most arrogant and admired people have a special kind of ignorance that the ignorant cannot see. — Robin Sacredfire

It is a great shame for anyone to listen to the accusation that Islam is a lie and that Muhammad was a fabricator and a deceiver. We saw that he remained steadfast upon his principles, with firm determination; kind and generous, compassionate, pious, virtuous, with real manhood, hardworking and sincere. Besides all these qualities, he was lenient with others, tolerant, kind, cheerful and praiseworthy and perhaps he would joke and tease his companions. He was just, truthful, smart, pure, magnanimous and present-minded; his face was radiant as if he had lights within him to illuminate the darkest of nights; he was a great man by nature who was not educated in a school nor nurtured by a teacher as he was not in need of any of this. — Thomas Carlyle

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. — Jock Sturges

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. — Dean Koontz

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd. — Benjamin Franklin

You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do. — Rick Yancey

I couldn't feel so I learned to touch. — Leonard Cohen

The red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, — Vladimir Nabokov

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. — Charles R. Swindoll

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all. — Anton Chekhov