Petrarca Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

How one realizes the shortness of life by the rapidity of sensations! I have only known Marguerite for two days, she has only been my mistress since yesterday, and she has already so completely absorbed my thoughts, my heart, and my life. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons. — Owen Wister

Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable ... — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit. — Emmitt Smith

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it. — Tracy Thompson

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another. — Robert Munsch

And we're both emotionally limping, because having old wounds re-opened is never fun, no matter how beneficial it might be. — Kirsty Eagar

I liked the myth elements of Christmas. The way in which its origins reach back far beyond Jesus, to the rituals of people unknown to us. The celebration of the winter solstice. The coming of light in the darkest time. — Robert B. Parker

We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill. It — Elizabeth Bear

We keep our reserves both in dollars and in Euros mostly. — Sergei Lavrov

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature. — Samuel Smiles

He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering. — Michael Shaara

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire — George Matthew Adams