Mccourt Foundation Quotes & Sayings

When i was 9 I didn't go to Narnia, when i grew 11 my Hogwarts letter didn't come, again when i was twelve my satyr didn't come and now I'll wait till I'm fifty maybe the hunger games will come — Javeria My Own Quote

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible. — Albert Camus

A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something. — Richard Meltzer

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become — Edwin Louis Cole

All my enemies are self-appointed. — Robert A. Heinlein

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker. — Malachy McCourt

There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can taste what's in our mouths, touch what's within our reach, smell within hundreds of metres and hear within tens of miles. But it's only through our vision that we are in communication with the sun and stars. — Gavin Francis

Living your best life is your most important journey in life. — Oprah Winfrey

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. Some people would agonise over minor slips or mistakes on their part, while others would feel quite unmoved by their own gross acts of betrayal or dishonesty. — Alexander McCall Smith

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past. — Charles Spurgeon

By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it. — Bill Bryson

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it. — Jhonen Vasquez