Sakaki Tree Quotes & Sayings

When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky. — Debasish Mridha

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources. — Robert E.Lee

He felt the stone hit his chest, hard and hot, before finding its way up to the surface again. He touched it, surprised by its weight. Marjorie splashed him suddenly, laughing loudly before swimming away, toward the shore. — Yaa Gyasi

Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking. — Nora Roberts

...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably. — Karen White

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living. — Herbert Hoover

That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children were, variously, weak-minded, hysterical or sickly, and seemed to imply that such afflictions were the result of the lack of a good piece of steak or a new bonnet, was only circumstance; were she installed on a throne at a twelve-course banquet table teaming with all of God's creatures brought from both air and field, trussed and roasted and swimming in their own succulent juices, she would heap her plate with the most exquisite victuals and lament that his feeble offspring were the way they were because they had it too well and what they really needed was a vat of cold porridge and a tureen full of dirt. — Paul Harding

I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts. — Patricia Highsmith

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. — Sydney Smith

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it. — Virginia McKenna

Every good work should have at least ten meanings. — Walter De Maria

Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die. — Michelle Franklin

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails. — Charlotte Church

Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it. — Mustafa Mahmud

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint. — Janosch