Graduate Gift Idea Quotes & Sayings

We children of God have been acting the same since the beginning of time toward our Father God. Yet he invites us to enjoy him and all that is his. Like both the older and younger brothers, we must learn that the joy of our lives is not in what we get from the Father but how we get to be with him as his children. He's throwing a party, and we are all invited. — Jefferson Bethke

When are they going to stop calling me General?"
"When are they going to stop calling me Princess?"
Han & Leia — Aaron Allston

Mention in baseball's official record books, however, requires that catchers play a minimum of 156 games in a season, — Mark S. Halfon

The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep. Doust's recognisably Australian contribution to the genre draws on his own experiences in a West Australian boarding school in this clever, polished, detail-rich debut novel. From the opening pages, the reader is wholly transported into the head of Jack Muir, a sensitive, sharp-eyed boy from small-town WA who is constantly measured (unfavourably) against his goldenboy brother. The distinctive, masterfully inhabited adolescent narrator recalls the narrator in darkly funny coming-of-age memoir Hoi Polloi (Craig Sherborne) - as does the juxtaposition of stark naivety and carefully mined knowingness.' - Bookseller+Publisher — Jon Doust

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. — Charles Sangster

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you! — Valerie Bertinelli

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences. — Edward Hirsch

What did I tell you when you were little girl? The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage and resignation, both.
~168 — Lynne Reid Banks

You hated me that much?'
'No.' I grabbed a branch and pulled myself up, my back still to him. 'I missed you that much. — Bree Despain

There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted. — Erin McCarthy

Sometimes, Lacey, the only way to heal is to be completely shattered." She — Lora Ann

All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness. — Susana Fortes

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song. — Geddy Lee

Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering. — Elizabeth O'Connor

A number of politicians, including those within your own party, believe Germans would be safer if the German military didn't insert itself into so many of the world's hot spots. — Wolfgang Schauble