Usikate Tawi Quotes & Sayings

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game? — Steve Sabol

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French

As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future ... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you. — Feist

Some guarded their children when they saw me, as though congenital defects and loneliness were contagious, even at a distance and through glass. — Edward Fahey

Everybody granted that if "Tom" were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him
it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life
that was quite another matter. As soon as the Governor understood the case, he pardoned Tom at once, and the creditors sold him down the river. — Mark Twain

You don't get paid for being brave! — William Vacchiano

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary. — C.J. Mahaney

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face. — Francesco Petrarca

Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility. — Stieg Larsson

All that matters is that you find a way to put the puck in the net. It doesn't matter how. I learned that from Mario. — Jaromir Jagr

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate. — William Shakespeare

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor. — Tanith Lee