Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Dave Foley

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Dave Barry

If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood.

Catherine Helen Spence

I look back to a happy childhood.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

Jane Wagner

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Jane Smiley

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

Carlos Castaneda

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

Agnes Martin

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Charlotte Bronte

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

Charlotte Bronte

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Richard G. Scott

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

Emmylou Harris

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

Mick Mandl

Wouldn't it be great if it was somebody down on their luck who got the $365 million? Hopefully, they would be generous and leave us a tip.

Katie Holmes

He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.

Charlie Trotter

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

Sir Serota

Sir Edwin Manton was one of the most generous benefactors in Tate's history,

Bob Day

Medicaid is not a generous program in terms of who can receive services. We aren't a state that has a lot of fluff in the program in terms of who we cover.

Mark Hammond

She was very generous, also. She had a very generous soul.

Edmund Burke

Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.

Douglas Southall Freeman

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.