Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

Charles Dickens

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Charles Dickens

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

Charles Dickens

If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Neil Harbisson

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Eric Lander

The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

Robert Ambrose

A lot of things, like spacewalking where humans have go from an airlock to a specific site, mean you have simply got to get where the work is,

Paul Wolfowitz

This is a man who takes pride and pleasure in having killed thousands of innocent humans beings. And it confirms everything we've known about him already, ... This Week.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Edmond Rostand

I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

Denny Green

Any time one of the 32 teams loses a starting quarterback, it probably makes a difference.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

Bob Dylan

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

e. e. cummings

Nobody loses all the time.

Ani Difranco

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

Ally Carter

I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.