Little Red Cap Carol Ann Duffy Quotes & Sayings

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998) — Henny Youngman

A whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with books
Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head
Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood. — Carol Ann Duffy

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. — Robert Breault

My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress. — Tallulah Bankhead

I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life. — Gareth Bale

I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept. — Carol Ann Duffy

It took ten years
In the woods to tell that a mushroom
Stoppers the mouth of a buried corpse, that birds
Are the uttered thought of trees, that a greying wolf
Howls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out
Season after season, same rhyme, same reason. — Carol Ann Duffy

If I ever let you down, it's not because I don't love you. It's because I don't love myself. — William Chapman

The power of prayer is miraculous! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home. — Tom Lehrer

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform. — Dick Durbin

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets. — Pope Francis

I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night ... — John Geddes