Toomas Truumees Quotes & Sayings

Youth boasts of strength;
age boasts of wisdom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. — Mary McGarry Morris

When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is. — Gautama Buddha

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited. — Nan Fairbrother

Back in the gurdwara, the ceiling doing strange things above my head, Jungli fed me with pieces of orange.
Our outspoken attachment deepened. I was moved by his tenderness, his simplicity and his beautiful eyes. Beauty is a great robber of my common sense. — Sarah Lloyd

When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system. — Nancy Pelosi

Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again. — Allen Coulter

As for the kids, once the damage is done with a divorce, you can't ever make it right. — Ozzy Osbourne

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. — Mary Shelley

Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river. — Garth Nix

It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished. — Waldemar Kaempffert