Findaschool Quotes & Sayings

The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things. — James Nares

Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That's a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn't want to wait around to enjoy the money. — Robert Kurson

If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels. — Mayandree Michel

I still have a lot of growing to do
and I know there is more room for it
in your absence. — Trista Mateer

I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have written something more sensible, because now I have to dress up as a pirate for book signings ... I would have done a novel about a man who hangs around with a gaggle of models. — Gideon Defoe

You never gain something but that you lose something. — Henry David Thoreau

A terrible thing happened to you, but you mustn't let it define your life. — Cheryl Strayed

For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another. — Virginia Woolf

The gentlemen are up there, sare," he said. "They do talk and they do laugh at what they talk. They do say they will throw bombs at ze king. — G.K. Chesterton

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there. — James Cook