Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carre Otis

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Carol Leifer

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

Carlos Castaneda

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

C. S. Lewis

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

C. S. Lewis

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

C. S. Lewis

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

David Parrish

We want to rebuild a strong neighborhood that's got potential. If we picked a spot that had 73 parcels and 50 homes and 40 were just falling apart, that would be a total redevelopment.

Agnes Repplier

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

Carlos Fuentes

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Dave Andrews

We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.

Agnes Repplier

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

Charles Dickens

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Girija Vyas

We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.

Moshe Katsav

When I walk the ground of the concentration camps, I fear that I am walking on the ashes of the victims.

Janet Malcolm

All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

Chief Seattle

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Tom Kelly

The only ashes we handle here are for hearts and paperweights.

Brandon Sanderson

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

Gerard Way

When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.

Michael Vaughan

She just said she'd been watching the Ashes and she couldn't watch it all because it got too nerve-wracking, and I said so it was for us as well.

James Graham

Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these

Carol Burnett

She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I know she is here tonight because she loved bluegrass.