Laineybot Quotes & Sayings

Dearest I cannot loiter here
in lather like a polar bear. — Robert Lowell

Inevitably, our children come to see us as we are. Not as we wish we were, or even as we should be. — Michael Perry

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health. — Christie Brinkley

Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today. — Ofra Strauss

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson

Hard work isn't enough. You got to believe — Derrick Rose

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. — Anne Fadiman

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow supposed to take care of his parents, rather than the other way around. Parents who were themselves raised with too little attention given to their own early feelings, if they have not worked out the resulting emotional problems in subsequent years, often look forward to having children of their own so that the children will make them happy. (81) — Sheldon B. Kopp

Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete. Is this, she wonders, how we'll all survive? — Cristina Garcia