Karoline Schwonke Quotes & Sayings

There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom. — Marina Warner

So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child.
And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child.
"It must be a free child," they said to each other.
"It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child."
So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long distance train in the Rootabaga Country. It ran across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. — Carl Sandburg

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

True love is being so in love that you run out of ways to say it. True love is having to google new and creative ways to say I love you because just saying it a thousand times a day isn't enough. — Sharon Swan

I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame! — Gautam Singhania

When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her ... — Meg Medina

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. — Thomas Jefferson

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened. — Scott Adams

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I — Robin Hobb

I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me. — Mike Tyson

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it. — Carol Leifer