Micklewood Close Quotes & Sayings

I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine. — Elizabeth Neel

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think. — Sarah Dessen

When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love. — Mother Teresa

If you have the dedication, means and patience to treat your daily struggle, like a step towards success, something bigger will come your way. — Auliq Ice

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power. — Lewis H. Lapham

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950. — Paul Saffo

Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide. — David Kyuman Kim

We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized. — Sanjay Rawal

And when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. — Rudyard Kipling

Ugliness, n.: A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. — Ambrose Bierce

What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on. — Dave Eggers