Grotty Def Quotes & Sayings

It's not until she sits up and wipes her eyes that I realize she's crying. My words are like knives; they cut into the people I love. It will be worse if you touch her, I think, a worse lie. But I ignore this thought, shifting down the bench to put my arm around her - my daughter - and as I do, she weeps openly, pressing her face against my damp shirt. — Adam Haslett

Well, I had the other problem," I told him. "I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in."
"What happened then?"
"What else," I said. "It broke. — Jodi Picoult

If you see those pretty things
that nature likes to show
Remember all those seals that sing
And leave them there to grow. — Stephen Cosgrove

She's one of those who goes all gooey over small furry animals. Not that it stops her eating them — Simon Bestwick

Fifth of American families lived on farms in the 1930s, — Gail Collins

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water? — Bill Watterson

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads. — Kelly Jones

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child. — Esther Hicks

In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome. — Edward Heath

Watch out for those who put themselves above you. The real ones point to Christ in you. — Richard Rossi

I just didn't want to leave the Cowboys when they were down. I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over. — Tom Landry

he questioned the wisdom of choosing a place where the windchill sucked his dick into his body and dried out his balls. — Skye Warren