Growingup Quotes & Sayings

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. — Keren Ann

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another. — Baruch Spinoza

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew. — Don McLean

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut. — Shelagh Delaney

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era. — Abdullah Ocalan

If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman — Margaret Thatcher

It was right then, between when I asked about the labyrinth and when she answered me, that I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls' bodies ease from one place to another, from arc to the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to wait to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I'd noticed curves before, of course, but I had never quite apprehended their significance. — John Green

Bye-bye, I thought, almost sure that I'd never see her again. But if I did - if we ran into each other someday - I knew we would smile and say polite things like How are you? and Give my regards to your parents, and we would secretly remember that we used to mean something to each other. And even if that never happened, if we never spoke again, I was grateful we'd have tonight. — Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded expression and then all he tried to do was to make them as perfect as he knew how. — W. Somerset Maugham