Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Jorge Luis Borges

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

Khalil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

Lord Byron

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

Henrik Ibsen

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

Farewell house, and farewell home! / She's for the Moors, and martyrdom.

John Milton

Farewell happy fields / Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail!

Farewell Fidel, that's the message of this bill,

Ernest Hemingway

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

Ernest Hemingway

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

Ernest Hemingway

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Ernest Hemingway

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

Ernest Hemingway

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

James Gates Percival

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Farewell! I go to find the Sun!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

Isaac Asimov

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

Jean Paul

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Jim Boeheim

I'm not Derek Jeter, there will be no farewell tour.

George Washington

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Gene Simmons

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

Hugh Downs

If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

Garry Kasparov

The scale of the man to whom we are bidding farewell today in no way corresponds to the paltry scale of today's authorities.

Cassandra Clare

You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.

Eva Braun

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

Itzhak Perlman

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.