Funny Junior Cert Quotes & Sayings

Early one seasonably cold morning, the first day of November, in the year of our lord 1952...the Cuyahoga River caught fire.

The river burned.

It wasn't so much the river, but a huge oil slick *on* the river, though distinguishing one from the other was more a job for a chemist than a lay observer. — Mark Winegardner

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it. — Pele

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know. — Ernest Hemingway,

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then, essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche ... and it's from that position, a position outside the cultural operating system, that we can begin to ask real questions about what does it mean to be human, what kind of circumstance are we caught in, and what kind of structures, if any, can we put in place to assuage the plan and accentuate the glory and the wonder that lurks, waiting for us, in this very narrow slice of time between the birth canal and the yawning grave. In other words we have to return to first premises. — Terence McKenna

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding. — Jerry Coleman

Christians don't seem to be as aware of, or as sensitive to, the dire state of humanity as they are about the pleasant growth of their Christian walk. — Larry Norman

The true atheist is he whose hands are cauterized by holy things. — Francis Bacon

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice. — Michael Gurnow

You got good eyes, she said. Yes mam, he said. I always did. Well I guess so, she said. You dont normally start out with bad ones and they get better. — Cormac McCarthy

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. — Henry Ward Beecher

This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters. — Hal Porter

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits. — Marcel Proust

The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets. — Rumi

Is this really happening?" I hear him whisper.
"What?" I blink, try to stay awake.
"You feel so real," he says. "You sound so real. I want so badly for this to be real."
"This is real," I say. "And things are going to get so much better. I promise."
He takes a tight breath.
"The scariest part," he says, so quietly, "is that for the first time in my life, I actually believe that. — Tahereh Mafi