Firefighter Wife Quotes & Sayings

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene. — Wendy Kopp

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable. — Douglas Preston

There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill. — Lizabeth Scott

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Rumi

Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also ... it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues ... another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children. — Nadine Strossen

Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked. — Laini Taylor

I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic. — Charles Baxter

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine. — Sarah Dessen

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. — Henry Ward Beecher

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. — Eric Hoffer

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs. — Harold Larwood

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow. — Bill Vaughan

I was certain I told you the king was coming."

She planted her hands on her hips. "You did not tell me the king was coming."

"I remember telling you there would be only one more delay until we would marry. That day on the battlements. I remember it distinctly."

"Aye, you did say that, but you failed to mention that the 'one thing' was the king of England."

"Well, now you know," he said casually, as if he were speaking of the time of day or the color of the sky and not something as important as a royal visit. "He is coming tomorrow," he added. "For our wedding. — Jill Barnett

She stopped pushing but declared; Prentice, I know how this works. Sure, she seems fine now. But in fifteen years when she's standing on top of a clocktower with an automatic rifle mowing down innocent bystanders, dont't call ME asking what went wrong. — Kristen Ashley