Spurt Simile Quotes & Sayings

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then. — Clint Eastwood

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival. — Eddie Vedder

It is possible to learn the will of nature from the things in which we do not differ from each other. For example, when someone else's little slave boy breaks his cup we are ready to say, "It's one of those things that just happen." Certainly, then, when your own cup is broken you should be just the way you were when the other person's was broken. Transfer the same idea to larger matters. Someone else's child is dead, or his wife. There is no one would not say, "It's the lot of a human being." But when one's own dies, immediately it is, "Alas! Poor me!" But we should have remembered how we feel when we hear of the same thing about others. — Epictetus

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. — Mark Twain

Spurting out like formula from a colicky baby's mouth, drops ejected from boiled frosting boiling, preliminary spurts from Old Faithful before the earthquake. — Dennis Vickers

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops. — Sanaa Lathan