Farjeon Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself. — Eleanor Farjeon

In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet! — Eleanor Farjeon

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. — Eleanor Farjeon

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning. — Eleanor Farjeon

From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth. — Dalai Lama

Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible. — Orison Swett Marden

Upon your shattered ruins where
This vine will flourish still, as rare,
As fresh, as fragrant as of old.
Love will not crumble. — Eleanor Farjeon

Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill. — Eleanor Farjeon

It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing. — Eleanor Farjeon

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. — Eleanor Farjeon

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. — Isaac Asimov

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything. — Salman Rushdie

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. — George Gilder

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to. — Anna Nicole Smith

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. — Eleanor Farjeon

Love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest. — Eleanor Farjeon

Praise with elation
Praise every morning
Spring's re-creation
Of the First Day! — Eleanor Farjeon

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them ... — Eleanor Farjeon

Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. — Eleanor Farjeon

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them. — Eleanor Farjeon

Morning has broken
Like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird. — Eleanor Farjeon

Dropt tears have hastened your decay
And brought you one step nigher death;
And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved,
The music of Love's golden breath
And seen the light in eyes that loved.
You think you hold the core and kernel
Of all the world beneath your crust,
Old dial? But when you lie in dust,
This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved.
Love is eternal. — Eleanor Farjeon

I interrupted. "Okay, that points toward a Creator, but does it tell us much about him?" "Actually, yes, it does," Craig replied. "We know this supernatural cause must be an uncaused, changeless, timeless, and immaterial being." "What's the basis of your conclusions?" "It must be uncaused because we know that there cannot be an infinite regress of causes. It must be timeless and therefore changeless, at least without the universe, because it was the creator of time. In addition, because it also created space, it must transcend space and therefore be immaterial rather than physical in nature. — Lee Strobel

She didn't seem to care one way or another. — Haruki Murakami

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information, — Eric Schmidt

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them. — Eleanor Farjeon

There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John. — Eleanor Farjeon

when a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none. — T.H. White

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb. — Eleanor Farjeon

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. — Eleanor Farjeon

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice. — Henry Rollins

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received. — Eleanor Farjeon

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there! — Eleanor Farjeon

Old sundial, you stand here for Time:
For Love, the vine that round your base
Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb
And lay one flower-capped spray in grace
Without the asking on your cold
Unsmiling and unfrowning face. — Eleanor Farjeon

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed. — Robert Mueller

Mystery*File website, have revealed that Farjeon wrote no — Martin Edwards

Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith. — Edward Wilmot Blyden

Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon

I support such a review, ... But the reality is that we don't need the results of a strategic study to know that there are some pressing problems in our military that demand our attention and our assistance now. — Joe Lieberman