Toulas Cafe Quotes & Sayings

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. — Hal Borland

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving — Leah Wilson

A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear. — Joanne Owen

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes. — Phoebe Stone

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless. — Sam Kean

Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing. — Wylie Dufresne

There is a birch-rod kept behind the looking-glass in the schoolroom, and every now and then it is brought out and used, for no reason that really matters. This generally happens when there is a yellow wind ... Most people in North China suffer from nerves during the winter months, when the air is so dry that one gets an electric shock every time that one touches metal, or takes off ones furs. The nervous tension becomes greater before a dust storm, known locally as a 'yellow wind. — Daniele Vare

Life doesn't come wrapped in a bow...But it's still a gift. — Tonya York

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. — Claire Danes

If I'm going to be a student here, treated on equal terms, then I have to be willing to do everything that they do," I said. "There can't be two sets of expectations, one for them and one for me, the only girl in the class. How will I earn their esteem if I don't pose? — Sharon Biggs Waller