Gracinha Mendes Quotes & Sayings

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew. — Ruth Park

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. — Murray Walker

How does one bear the ache that accompanies seeing the goodness resting in the soul of someone who denies you love because they see only your shortcomings? — Jessica Dotta

Children are the poem made flesh. — Marty Rubin

No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton — Bryan Davis

I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice. It doesn't. But I think that love will be truer and more permanent in which self-sacrifice has been exacted. — Ford Madox Ford

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words. — Bill Cosby

During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream. — Constance Spry

Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers. — Benjamin Graham

He leaned his forehead against the mirror and closed his eyes. It was embarrassing to see himself smile like that. — Rainbow Rowell

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react. — Phillip C. McGraw

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family. — Chris Brown

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money. — Larry Hite

I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own. — P.L. Travers

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike. — John Bytheway