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.

Jandy Nelson

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

Deepak Chopra

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Bob Bacarella

There is nothing on the horizon that is going to turn this stock around quickly. ( Intel ) is like a big ship in the ocean. It takes time to turn.

Ryan Evanochko

Hopefully, this tells (the Horizon League) that we're dangerous.

Joe Montana

Unless they do a better job up front, neither one can throw from the horizontal position,

John Doran

He just comes at it from a more horizontal level.

Chuck Clarke

We told them that we would work with them and they have not come back with us, so nothing's really on the horizon right now.

Al Franken

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life.

Catherine McAuley

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

Anton Corbijn

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

Albert Einstein

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

Drew Brees

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Abraham Lincoln

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

Duane G. Carey

So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day.

Annie Dillard

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.