Tiro Quotes & Sayings

We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood and use it to shape themselves into unique human beings is a miracle in itself. Despite individual struggles, triumphs, joys and disappointments, someone is made of the same stuff and has been at your side, whether figuratively or literally, from the beginning. Use our brother and sister quote collection to explore this truth and gain compassionate understanding for yourself and your siblings. — Laura Ramirez

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books ... — Ray Bradbury

An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.] — Martial

So potter with potter contendeth: the hewer of wood with the hewer of wood: the beggar is jealous of the beggar, the ministrel is jealous of the ministrel. — Alexander William Mair

There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience. — Vint Cerf

While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA. — Jennifer Armentrout

One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems. — Joseph Heath

What are the only weapons I possess, Tiro?" he asked me, and then he answered his own question. "These." he said, gesturing at his books. "Words. Caesar and Pompey have their soldiers, Crassus his wealth, Clodius his bullies on the street. My only legions are my words. By language I rose, and by language I shall survive. — Robert Harris

Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her, said Jeffrey. — Jeanne Birdsall

One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship. — Mike Rosen

Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name ("the first rule in politics, Tiro: never forget a face"). — Robert Harris

Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our hopes and plans, or could see the manner in which we are doomed to die - how ruined our lives would be! Instead we live on dumbly from day to day as happily as animals. But all things must come to dust eventually. No human being, no system, no age is impervious to this law; everything beneath the stars will perish; the hardest rock will be worn away. Nothing endures but words. — Robert Harris

J.F. McNair reported that Malays in Perak formally built and instituted a mosque whenever a village grew larger than forty houses. — Rosnani Hashim