Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.

Wendell Berry

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

W. Somerset Maugham

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

Vladimir Nabokov

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

Vladimir Nabokov

I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ...I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov

I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

Yann Martel

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

Willie Smits

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.

Willie Randolph

I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.

Willie Nelson

Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.

William Makepeace Thackeray

He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

Yao Ming

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Come over to my house with your sister, baby, and I'll show you who's gay!

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around. It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.

Zadie Smith

It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

Zadie Smith

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.