Tormentilla Root Quotes & Sayings

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs. — Gary L. Thomas

It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh ...
Even the streams were now lifeless ... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world.
The people had done it themselves ... — Rachel Carson

Jimmie says our socks and clothes are very religious because they are so holey — Christopher Paul Curtis

Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means. — Bela Bartok

I have come to learn that the people who
pretend to care the least actually care the
most. — Anna Todd

My sole occupation is love. — John Of The Cross

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company. — Bertrand Russell

What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity. — Orison Swett Marden

I've had plenty of meaningless dates and pointless conversations. This woman was never pointless. She was everything. — Lauren Blakely

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign. — Manny Farber

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity ... — H.L. Mencken

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia. — Boris Yeltsin