Placheta Quotes & Sayings

It was her street, her neighborhood, her life. She knew that someday in the future it would not be hers anymore. But she would remember it, she would treasure it, she would miss it. She would hold it in her heart. She knew that someday she would look back at this very moment and miss it ... Never had life seemed more beautiful and more sad. — Mick Cochrane

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned. — John Dewey

It was the day of my Judgment, and I was prepared in a thousand ways that didn't matter. — Andrew Rowe

Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs. — Catherynne M Valente

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire. — Arnold Bennett

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. — Blaise Pascal

We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids. — Patricia Heaton

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace. — Augustine Of Hippo

All I am is all we are. — Jamie McGuire

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that. — Phil Collins

The rhythm of the dance lies in the music. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive. — Patty Griffin