Edmondo Quotes & Sayings

Mother made sure her little kids were subjected to a strict routine. We were given a timetable which covered our every waking moment, copies of which were posted by our bedside, in the sitting room and in the kitchen. Story hour meant that mother would read us novels and short stories by Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde and Edmondo de Amicis. Soon we graduated to Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev. She read them to us in Chinese and I never realised until much later that the writers wrote them in different European languages. Comics were absolutely forbidden and so were Enid Blyton adventures and pop music ... Lee Cyn and I soon went to a primary school nearby ... After mother's rigorous timetable, school became fun and easy-going. — Ang Swee Chai

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path. — Sigrid Undset

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. — Elon Musk

Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don't fall in love; you get trampled by it. — Bart Yates

Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing. — Libbie Block

What is working stain, does not soil. — Edmondo De Amicis

Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth. — Edmondo De Amicis

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same. — Alison Espach

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown ... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off. — Harper Lee

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration. — Edmondo De Amicis

Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love. — Edmondo De Amicis

What I knew, adored, and fell for was a fantasy. He did not exist in human terms. — Coco J. Ginger

People only see what they want to see, and they only do whatever they want to do. You can make excuses for them all you like, but you'll always be making excuses for them, — Jade West

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. — Edmondo De Amicis

In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love. — S.A. Tawks

Often we had no choice: we couldn't reform the whole world. And didn't somebody once say 'Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true - which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again ... — Edmondo De Amicis

The school is a mother — Edmondo De Amicis

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus. — Edmondo De Amicis

The moon rises. The red cubs rolling
In the ferns by the rotten oak
Stare over a marsh and a meadow
To the farm's white wisp of smoke.
A spark burns, high in heaven.
Deer thread the blossoming rows
Of the old orchard, rabbits
Hop by the well-curb. The cock crows
From the tree by the widow's walk;
Two stars in the trees to the west,
Are snared, and an owl's soft cry
Runs like a breath through the forest.
Here too, though death is hushed, though joy
Obscures, like night, their wars,
The beings of this world are swept
By the Strife that moves the stars. — Randall Jarrell

In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied. — Edmondo De Amicis