Rakkauden Haudalla Quotes & Sayings

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now. — Andrew Solomon

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard. — George Santayana

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair. — Cecelia Ahern

Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life. — Blake Shelton

One of the many unintended consequences of the Anthropocene has been the pruning of our own family tree. Having cut down our sister species - the Neanderthals and the Denisovans - many generations ago, we're now working on our first and second cousins. By the time we're done, it's quite possible that there will be among the great apes not a single representative left, except, that is, for us. — Elizabeth Kolbert

It seems safe to say that apes know about death, such as that is different from life and permanent. The same may apply to a few other animals, such as elephants, which pick up ivory or bones of a dead herd member, holding the pieces in their trunks and passing them around. Some pachyderms return for years to the spot where a relative died, only to touch and inspect the relics. Do they miss each other? Do they recall how he or she was during life? — Frans De Waal

But how," said Charles, who was close to tears, "how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?'
Henry lit a cigarette. "I prefer to think of it," he had said, "as redistribution of matter. — Donna Tartt

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives. — Israelmore Ayivor

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn. — Nelson A. Miles

I love you, Jeremy."

He still felt it, that wince of doubt. The urge to push her away. She said it so simply. As though there was nothing easier, more natural in the world. The words themselves hung in the air, so tiny, so bare.

Jeremy felt as though she'd thrust a frail, delicate, birdlike thing into his big, clumsy hands, charging him to keep it safe. And God forgive him, his first impulse was to shove it away. He would destroy it, surely. In his desperation, he would grasp it so tightly it would break into a thousand pieces - and his own heart would break along with it. — Tessa Dare

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one. — Jerry Bruckheimer

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones ... you are invited! — Anthony Burgess

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives. — Elaine A. Cannon

That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless. — Semezdin Mehmedinovic