Gefion Australian Quotes & Sayings

You know the part in Cinderella
when everyone goes to the ball
and she sits at home, crying?
It wasn't because her gown was ripped.
It was because she knew
she was an idiot
for thinking
she could grab a prince. — Kelly Bingham

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz

How chocolate turned white and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can't unmix things no matter how much you might want to. — Nicola Yoon

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge. — Donny Osmond

When I was a child, my grandmother used to mix a paste for me of flour and water. Then I would go out into the yard and pick grass and make drawings out of pencil and grass pasted to the paper. — Norma Cole

It is noble to love another without caring to know who gave them breath. — Cornelius Elmore Addison

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started. — Ryan Tedder

You can tell a lot about a person by how excited they are to do the Macarena. — Janeane Garofalo

American troops stationed in the Philippines suppressed the native uprising that had followed the treaty. Known as the Philippine Insurrection, that conflict had erupted when the Filipinos learned, after decades of fighting for independence, that they had been betrayed into exchanging the rule of Spain for American occupation. With 35,000 additional troops authorized by Congress, Roosevelt projected that within two years the rebellion would be crushed, a necessary step before the United States could execute its avowedly beneficent intentions. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does. — Jeffrey Eugenides

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Initially, a simple phrase chased round and round in Cecilia's thoughts: Of course, of course. How had she not seen it? Everything was explained. The whole day, the weeks before, her childhood. A lifetime. It was clear to her now. Why else take so long to choose a dress, or fight over a vase, or find everything so different, or be unable to leave? What had made her so blind, so obtuse? — Ian McEwan

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness. — Sandra Bernhard

Yeah and it's over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last — Tom Petty