Hirondelle Quotes & Sayings

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anaesthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being. — William Ernest Henley

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Always I glance both ways.
Why chance missing love
wherever she or he may lurk? — Rod McKuen

Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family? — Carl Sagan

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand. — Jeff Smith

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you. — Carl Sandburg

Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportian suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lovers's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favourite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. — Truman Capote