Shanghainese Language Quotes & Sayings

And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die. — Jeff Lindsay

Of course, you're always a cynic before you fall in love yourself... — Holly Bourne

I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't. — Beth Gutcheon

Pussy, it's the breakfast of champions. — Chloe Brushwood Rose

It was a quiet way -
He asked if I was his -
I made no answer of the tongue
But answer of the eyes -
And then He bore me on
Before this mortal noise
With swiftness, as of Chariots
and distance, as of Wheels.
This World did drop away
As acres from the feet
of one that leaneth from Balloon
Upon an Ether Street.
The Gulf behind was not,
The Continents were new -
Eternity was due.
No Seasons were to us -
It was not Night nor Morn -
But Sunrise stopped upon the place
And Fastened in Dawn. — Emily Dickinson

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions. — John Irving

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates — Robert Moss

Judging from the fact that you're out here by yourself, I'd say that you were probably embarrassed, — Phillip W. Simpson

You can't just go around giving people cars. You're not Oprah. — Penny Reid

I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope. — Kathleen Moore

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. — Muhammad Yunus