Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

Charlotte Bronte

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

Charlotte Bronte

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

Charlotte Bronte

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Charles Sumner

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Alan Pardew

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

William Morris

We are potentially vulnerable in just about anything we do anywhere.

Alexia Fast

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

Phoebe Snow

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

Amanda Hocking

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

Alicia Keys

Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.

Robert Ross

We live in a system where people are innocent until proven guilty.

Bill Hamilton

This proposal would punish people who are innocent of any wrongdoing.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Michael Paranzino

Since 1999 we've had 100,000 innocent people murdered in America. But nobody is planning on commemorating all those people killed.

Anna Faris

She's still the same old simple Cindy. She's just as innocent and naive as ever, just trying to save the world again.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Bruce Helford

Nobody is as innocent as they used to be,

Benjamin Crump

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.