Sperling Nursery Quotes & Sayings

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

God, remember when we defeated Goliath, when we pastured sheep or we threw, in vain, the nets, and You chose us."
FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ASAPH BOOK — Roberto Ornan Roche

We can passively take our place in the negative chain, accepting the harm to ourselves and passing it on to others. Or we can break the chain and turn the energy of a destructive emotion into a constructive action. — Laura Archera Huxley

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor
thank Heaven!
always Storm. — Charlotte Bronte

Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on. — Katherine Webb

The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them. — Paolo Gentiloni

I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.
(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2) — Robert Robert

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Hug the shore; let others try the deep. — Virgil

I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable. — Vironika Tugaleva

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life. — James Stenson

To mend any relationship, you need to first accept it needs to be fixed, and comprehend that the fault often time lies within, what you see in the other is merely a reflection of it. — Rayna Dee

Did you know?" I snarled. "Did you help take my father and corrupt my life? — Oliver Bowden

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. — B.F. Skinner

When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife? — Peter David