Repudiated Def Quotes & Sayings

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett

I know her name. I remember because I forgot. That's one of the joys of love. Well, two of the joys. — Jarod Kintz

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well. — Carrie Fisher

Power to the people then and now. — Nadair Desmar

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us. — Mitch Albom

But he'd loved only Eby. You didn't need a mirror to tell you that you were beautiful when you had proof like that. — Sarah Addison Allen

Be a follower. Be a leader. Learn what it means to be both. Don't follow a follower. Follow your heart. Be careful of frauds. They are all around us. — Sadiqua Hamdan

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts — Stacia Kane

I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centers, and gas stations and all the other unhealthy growth that flourished beside the highway. It was a landscape that no one else had much interest in looking at. Other than me. — Lewis Baltz

Josh Hutchins's battered old Pontiac gave a wheeze like an old man with phlegm in his lungs. — Robert McCammon

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper