Mercuri Urval Quotes & Sayings

Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast. — Robyn Carr

There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said. — David Almond

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth. — Mahatma Gandhi

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? — George Eliot

He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the creak of ropes; then he heard the wave-against-a-wharf smack of rubber on flesh. Her call for him to hurry was a sea-moan, and when he lay beside her, she heaved, tidal, moon-driven. — Nathanael West

I'm always in awe of accomplished people but never "starstruck". — Mike Ruiz

I like that the art world isn't regulated. — Jerry Saltz

I don't acknowledge the responsibility you're trying to make me feel. — Rhiannon Lassiter

Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation's aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd. — Alexander Pope