Predecessors Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration. — Agatha Christie

You are the thing that I love the most in this world, so — Ruby Dixon

Guys blow my looks up more than I ever would. I guess I have issues with myself. I don't think I'm as pretty as everybody thinks. — Amanda Righetti

Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. — Margaret Atwood

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him. — Alton Brown

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it. — Harold Feinstein

At first the solitude
charmed me like a prelude,
but so much music wounded me. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The graveyard is an everlasting home of every man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good dreams can be inspirations to bring in to make reality fantastic enough to share — Jay Woodman

Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still. — Lisa Schroeder

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could. — Andrew Forrest

Sometimes things end worse for one side than the other. These 'injured parties' always seem to see themselves as victims of a moral outrage. They never feel simply rejected, but also abused. I've known many women who were great believers in the curative powers of indignation. — Lionel Shriver

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows ... Color is surface skin that fits over the form. — John French Sloan

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman ... I have had occasion in my life to defend marriage, to stand up for marriage, to believe in the hard work and challenge of marriage. So I [am] committed to the sanctity of marriage, or to the fundamental bedrock principle that exists between a man and a woman, going back into the mists of history as one of the founding, foundational institutions of history and humanity and civilization, and that its primary, principal role during those millennia has been the raising and socializing of children for the society into which they are to become adults. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it. — Ruth Sawyer