Speak First Marking Period Quotes & Sayings

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. — Dustin Hoffman

The sun burned like a fire ship on the water, sinking slowly till only a red smoke was left trailing up the sky. A fishing boat was headed into the harbor, black and small against the enormous west. Above its glittering wake a few gulls whirled like sparks which had gone out. — Ross Macdonald

Unlike the white, billions of whom shared the same handful of names, all interchangeable in the end, a Comanche name lived and died with a single person. — Philipp Meyer

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better. — Nora Roberts

You expected me to find a trustworthy forger? — Douglas Hulick

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes. — Richard Cecil

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well. — Miyamoto Musashi

We must clean this, and then you must leave here. He will find you. He will smell you out as I did. You are full of purity and goodness. It's like candy to my kind. — Candace Knoebel

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. — Erich Fromm

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything. — Toby Young

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am. — Kim Raver

Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not. — Barbara O'Connor

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am. — Judith Guest

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before. — George Meyer