Thegreatreturn Quotes & Sayings

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.' — Dick Cavett

So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,
If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,
On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.
Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, when
If it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?
Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin! — Horace

Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something. — David Sedaris

A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence. — Misha Glenny

When man become fully compassionate, saddles of the horses will be fully empty! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them. — Tecumseh

We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action. — Jerry Reinsdorf

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper. — Arthur Machen

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. — Anatole France

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love. — Oscar Wilde

Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something. — Jerry A. Coyne