Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Dickens

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Charles Spurgeon

The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.

Charles Spurgeon

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Charles Spurgeon

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Alan Watts

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

William Shakespeare

I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.

Charles Francis Richter

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

Charles Bukowski

and love was lightning and remembrance

William Shakespeare

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

Czeslaw Milosz

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Dante Alighieri

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Bill Vaughan

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

Gabriela Mistral

For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Khalil Gibran

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

Tracy Chapman

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Walter Salles

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Ellie Goulding

I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.

A. A. Milne

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

Tony Benn

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

Miley Cyrus

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

Anais Nin

My diary seems to keep me whole.

Amber Heard

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

Jo Brand

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.