Deambular Quotes & Sayings

Francesca actually felt her chin drop. "Mother," she said, shaking her head, "you really should have stopped at seven."
"Children, you mean?" Violet asked, sipping at her tea. "Sometimes I do wonder."
"Mother!" Hyacinth exclaimed.
Violet just smiled at her. "Salt?"
"It took her eight tries to get it right," Hyacinth announced, thrusting the salt cellar at her mother with a decided lack of grace.
"And does that mean that you, too, hope to have eight children?" Violet inquired sweetly.
"God no," Hyacinth said. With great feeling. And neither she nor Francesca could quite resist a chuckle after that. — Julia Quinn

It's over me like a ton of water, the things I don't know. — Gina Berriault

The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed. — John C. Maxwell

Perhaps I'm not their dead one back, but I'm something almost better to them; an ideal shaped by their minds. — Ray Bradbury

Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details in everything you do and excellence will come. — Perry Sexton

If a peasant offers you a beautiful fruit with his dirty hands, take it with endless gratitude because his hands became dirty for your happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The hope of reward is the solace of labor. — Publilius Syrus