Miss Havisham Benefactor Quotes & Sayings

Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love. — Sorin Cerin

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. — Terry Pratchett

We may have given to us, in this life, a few things that will give us satisfaction, temporally; but the things that are eternal, the things that are "worth while", are those eternal things that we reach out for, and prepare ourselves to receive, and lay hold of by the effort that we individually make. — George Albert Smith

Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals] ... A mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see-a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. — Percival Lowell

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last. — Kobe Bryant

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really. — Andrew Davies