Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

Charles Dickens

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Charles Dickens

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

Charles Dickens

Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

Charles Dickens

For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

Charles Dickens

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

Charles Spurgeon

But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

Alanis Morissette

I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

C. J. Mahaney

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

John Cale

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

Ernest Hemingway

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

Gloria Grahame

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

Erica Jong

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

Ovid

Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

Kami Garcia

Everything about me remembers everything about you

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you? (Nick) Completely perplexed. You remember everything that happened. (Acheron) Yeah. Duh. Not like you’re going to forget the killer zombie stalkers and psyched-out kitchen staff. What kind of freak show is this? (Nick)

Stephen Strasburg

It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Garth Nix

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

Candace Bushnell

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

Paulo Coelho

Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them.

Mike Love

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

Johnny Depp

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

Stephen King

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

Stanley Kunitz

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

Richard Baxter

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.