Teaching Our Daughter Self Reliance Quotes & Sayings

to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years. Such, it seemed, was the joy of man, either in elfland or on earth; the happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do. — G.K. Chesterton

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present. — Fausto Cercignani

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship. — Bernard Cornwell

If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

STOP letting people get to you. They can only pull the trigger ... if you hand them the gun. — Timothy Pina

I may not recall what you told, I may not remember what you showed, but if you make me swear, I will not forget that ever — Reetwika Banerjee

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer. — Margaret Atwood

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends? — Will Smith

Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ. — Philip Yancey

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself? — Ozzy Osbourne

Never run with scissors or other pointy objects. — Billy Connolly

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again. — Colum McCann

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. — Ted Hughes