Semintra Quotes & Sayings

Girls now lose their virginity long before they lose their innocence. — Chloe Thurlow

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?' — Nancy Roman

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty. — Charles Spurgeon

Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility. — Eckhart Tolle

Cecy," he whispered against her ear, "tell me this is not a dream. Are you truly mine at last?" "Oh, Luke." She slid her arms about his waist and gripped him tight. "I always have been. — Tessa Dare

Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry. — Janet Evanovich

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. — Gertrude Stein

Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise your salary! — Charles Dickens

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one — Zack De La Rocha

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor. — Heather O'Neill

We can only be young once. But we can always be immature. — Dave Barry

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess. — Lauren Oliver

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig

Survival requires a dose of madness - what cynics call "hoping against hope" - just like art does; you conjure your future from white space, locate the hidden person, yourself, against this unfamiliar background, peering through grief and loss at something greater. "Survivors are more urgently rooted in life than most of us," observed one Holocaust expert. "Their will to survive is one with the thrust of life itself, as stubborn as the upsurge of spring. A strange exultation fills [their] soul, a sense of being equal to the worst. — Mark Matousek