Jerine Bernardino Quotes & Sayings

Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot. — Okey Ndibe

Voice, according to Miss Wilcox, is not just the sound that comes from your throat but the feeling that comes from your words — Jennifer Donnelly

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature's greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back. — Gustave Flaubert

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs

The writer's life is a life of revisions. — Jonathan Franzen

But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. — Ned Vizzini

Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said,
Are innocent and fathomless
And when I look at them I see
That they are not aware of me
And oh I find and oh I bless
A comfort in this emptiness
They only see me when they want
To pounce upon me at the hunt;
But in the tame variety
There couches an anxiety
As if they yearned, yet knew not what
They yearned for, nor they yearned for not.
And so my dog would look at me
And it was pitiful to see
Such love and such dependency.
The human heart is not at ease
With animals that look like these. — Stevie Smith

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan. — Tony Robbins

Deep is the chasm between the centuries, but by bridging it a man may return home. — David C. Douglas