Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idina Menzel

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

C. S. Lewis

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

Cecelia Ahern

Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.

Carl Maria von Weber

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

Bethenny Frankel

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

Benjamin Rush

I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.

Arnon Goldfinger

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

Antoine Rivarol

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

Bertrand Russell

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

Terence Smith

I thought it was a shame that I didn't know my own.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

William Shakespeare

O shame, where is thy blush?

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Wayne Mason

It is a shame there was such a setback there.

Rob Gray

It is a shame that the work has been done in the way it has.

Catherynne M. Valente

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life.

Anton Chekhov

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

Edmund Spenser

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

Edmund Burke

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

Edward Everett

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Clarice Lispector

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Alice Miller

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Andrew Jackson

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.