Newfoundland Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I think he's real," the boy said.
"Me, too," the girl agreed.
"Well," the mom said. "If enough folks believe in a thing, I guess it becomes real enough. Don't it? — Brom

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine or library. — Ray Bradbury

Misfortunes shared creates happiness. — Victor Hugo

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm. — Ramana Maharshi

We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Even a poet cannot get everything right. — Ursula K. Le Guin

was sitting in my detective office in R'lyeh. My partner Dagon sat at the desk across from me. We had been doing the detective thing for a couple of strange aeons now. — Dennis Liggio

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle. — Griffith Edwards

The patter of tentative footfalls reached my ears. I flipped on my side to face the door and saw Ansel wander by. I rolled onto my back, rubbing sleep from my eyes. I'd crashed on my bed as soons as I'd gotten back from school, collapsing under the weight of the day.
The floorboards squeaked as Ansel passed by my door again. I caught his nervous glance in my direction before he hurried down the hall.
'Ansel, I'm not the sun; stop orbiting and get in here,' I called. — Andrea Cremer

Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed by the hand of the poet himself: 'For her whose wishes must be obeyed' ... 'The happier Helen of our day' ... disgraceful to say, she had never read them. — Virginia Woolf

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned. — Andy Pettitte