Egner Cemetery Quotes & Sayings

The long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160) — Katherine Paterson

My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to do the right thing. My dream to me was to have money to support it and to live in the kind of house I liked. — Jack Kirby

Secret to a Perfect marriage- Marrying and loving the most imperfect person who loves your imperfections too with the same degree. — Shikha Kaul

Packing a bag doesn't make you aware of changes, rather it compels you to postpone the past, and the present is taken up with concerns about the immediate. Time slides over the travelers' skin. — Andres Neuman

Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it. Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters. — Brandon Sanderson

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream. — George R R Martin

They don't wait for something to happen. They wait to happen to something. — Cath Crowley

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day. — Mario Benedetti

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back. — Richard Brautigan

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down! — Frances Power Cobbe

I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. Not as the reproachful warning clang of church bells ringing for service, when I pass a church door without going in, but because the men sang the hymn only when they were out of spirits and considered our position desperate. It seemed as though they would remind me that defeat awaited me, and that this time I had aimed too high. — Sven Hedin

in the beginning there was hardly any one who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The — Henry Ford

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self. — Mary Shelley

You're seriously talking about a ghost. This building - or parts of it - has been here for two and a half centuries. It would strike me odder if there wasn't a ghost. Not everything, everyone, leaves. — Nora Roberts

An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer. — Chris F. Westbury