Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holly Black

His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.

Holly Black

It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.

Henry Taylor

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love...

Henry Van Dyke

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Jose Rizal

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

Jose Marti

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

Jordin Sparks

Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.

Kelli Giddish

I had never been to Texas. Id been through Texas, but Im so glad to be back in a place thats not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, its rich and saturated in American-ness.

Kelley Armstrong

The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper, "I think it's very sweet, you sticking up for your brother like that." "I'm not trying to be sweet," Simon said, raising his voice so Thierry could hear. "I'm trying to be fair. But apparently no one's interested in that.

Khalil Gibran

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

Khalil Gibran

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

Jonathan Safran Foer

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.

Jonathan Safran Foer

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

Livy

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

Lori Foster

Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening.

Lord Byron

Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.

Lord Byron

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

Lord Byron

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

Lord Byron

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

Lord Byron

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

Lord Byron

The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

Lord Byron

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

Lord Byron

Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

Lord Byron

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

M. F. K. Fisher

Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

M. F. K. Fisher

I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.

Lord Mountbatten

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

Malaika Arora Khan

Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... its a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.

Gabrielle Zevin

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.