Wonderings Kids Quotes & Sayings

Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant. — Danielle L. Jensen

If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author. — Steve Maraboli

Where do I always find enough courage for one last hope? I am the enemy of this indestructible, pitiless hope which prolongs and intensifies all my pain. I would like to lay hold of hope and strangle it once and for all. — Anna Kavan

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means. — Anna Brownell Jameson

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. — Nancy Gibbs

You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort. — Maureen Johnson

You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you make it right. — Terry Pratchett

I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried... — Nancy Milford