Seventeenth Anniversary Quotes & Sayings

Seek on high bare trails
Sky-reflecting violets...
Mountain-top jewels — Basho Matsuo

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet. — Richard Branson

Andy gave me a leatherbound Bible (which I also read, mostly to spite him) — Stephen King

God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others. — Alexander Pushkin

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed. — Ann Brashares

Cayman shrugged."It's a sign of the times, man. It'll probably be on some Alpha's Facebook wall within the hour."
Alphas had Facebook accounts? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed that government existed by the consent of the governed, not by divine right. But the reason government is necessary is to defend private property, to keep people from stealing from each other. This idea appealed to the wealthy for an obvious reason: they wanted to keep their wealth. From the perspective of the poor, things look decidedly different. The rich are able to accumulate wealth by taking the labor of the poor and by turning the commons into privately owned commodities; therefore, defending the accumulation of wealth in a system that has no other moral constraints is in effect defending theft, not protecting against it. — Lierre Keith

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else. — Ambrose Bierce

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything. — John De Ruiter

His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;
Our valors are our best gods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exactly what was wrong with her? And could she pass it on to any children she may have? — Shelly Laurenston

I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: Well, lucky I can do anything at all. — Alice Munro

I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I'm a soul singer. Don't ask me to come in and rap. And don't ask me to come in and sing pop. — Sharon Jones

The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but that we have such a stein inability to let go of what it has traditionally meant to be a man ... As long as we perpetuate the myth that men have inherent qualities that make them more suitable than women for certain types of work, the shifting nature of the economy (and women's attainment of better jobs) is going to continue to be interpreted as a crisis of masculinity. — Samhita Mukhopadhyay

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. — V.S. Naipaul